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Create self-managed replicas for an Amazon RDS for Db2 instance for read scaling and disaster recovery

In this post, we explain how to use RDS Db2 Snapshot and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to create cross Region replicas for your RDS for Db2 DB instance. If you want to use this replica for read scaling, there needs to be logic built at the application layer to direct only read traffic to the replica.

Resolving non-responsive connection issue to on-premises Oracle multitenant architecture database having local listeners behind firewall from the cloud

Oracle Multitenant Architecture uses a container-based architecture specifically designed for the cloud. It enables the Oracle database to function as multitenant container database (CDB) where application databases are created as pluggable databases (PDB) inside the container database (CDB). A PDB is a collection of schemas, schema objects and non-schema objects, and self-contained for an application […]

Migrate Cassandra workloads to Amazon Keyspaces using CQLReplicator

In this post we walk through the steps to setup CQL Replicator and migrate a table from self-managed Cassandra cluster to Amazon Keyspaces. We demonstrate how to set up, run, and shut down the CQLReplicator job using command line tooling and observe changes flowing through the pipeline in Amazon CloudWatch.

How Phreesia replicated a 30 TB SQL Server database to Amazon S3 with AWS DMS

In this post, we discuss how Phreesia used AWS DMS to replicate their on-premises database to AWS in an effective and cost-optimized manner. Because of the database’s large size and complex data structure, properly tuning the AWS DMS configuration was critical to minimize the migration duration and cost. We outline the fine-tuning techniques that were applied to optimize the AWS DMS task settings, instance size, IOPS provisioning, and table mappings. Applying these performance optimizations allowed Phreesia to develop a migration strategy to move this 30 TB database to Amazon S3 in just 2 days without disruption to production workloads.

Enable Amazon RDS for Oracle immutable tables for protected workloads

Immutable tables are a feature of Oracle Enterprise Edition, or Oracle Standard Edition database 19c and higher. In this post, we guide you through the features of immutable tables when creating, storing, and managing data on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle.

Simplify Industrial IoT: Use InfluxDB edge replication for centralized time series analytics with Amazon Timestream

As industrial and manufacturing companies embark on their digital transformation journey, they are looking to capture and process large volumes of near real-time data for optimizing production, reducing downtime, and improving overall efficiency. As part of this, they’re looking to store data locally at the plant floor or on-premises data center for real-time low-latency reporting […]

Achieve point-in-time recovery for all databases in Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server allows up to 5,000 databases per instance. However, the number of databases that can be restored to a specific point in time using point-in-time recovery (PITR) depends on the instance class type. In this post, we show how to use native backup and restore commands to achieve PITR for databases that aren’t eligible because of the instance type limitation. We present two solutions: one applicable to all versions of RDS Custom for SQL Server and the other for RDS Custom for SQL Server version 2022.