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Deploy AWS DMS in a multi-tiered secure network using an Nginx proxy server
This is a guest post by Hemalatha Katari, Solution Architect at Accenture, in partnership with AWS Partner Solutions Architect Rohit Satyanarayana. In this post, we discuss how to use AWS Data Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate your database while maintaining strict network segregation and network security requirements. We recently used this solution with a […]
Physical migration of Oracle databases to Amazon RDS Custom using RMAN duplication
This blog post was reviewed and updated May 2022. Organizations are moving their self-managed Oracle databases to AWS managed database services to modernize their applications and gain access to cloud services. With Amazon RDS Custom, you now have the privileges needed to perform a physical migration of your Oracle database into Amazon Relational Database Service […]
Automate Amazon Aurora Global Database endpoint management for planned and unplanned failover
This blog post was last reviewed or updated April, 2022 to include unplanned failover feature. Important note: This solution relies on Route 53 control plane, which is only available in N.Virginia region (us-east-1). For an unplanned failover, if your primary Region is us-east-1 we don’t advise using this solution as it takes a dependency on the […]
Automate the Amazon Aurora MySQL blue/green deployment process
December, 2022: Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments to help you with safer, simpler, and faster updates to your Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS databases. Blue/Green Deployments create a fully managed staging environment that allows you to deploy and test production changes, keeping your current production database safe. Learn […]
Preparing on-premises and AWS environments for external Kerberos authentication for Amazon RDS
As database security becomes more and more essential to the success of a business, managing user access to databases effectively has always been a challenge to database administrators (DBAs) and security officers. Traditional database authentication is based on a username-password mechanism. This method unfortunately requires effort from both DBAs and users to maintain the credentials; […]
Best practices for configuring parameters for Amazon RDS for MySQL, part 3: Parameters related to security, operational manageability, and connectivity timeout
This blog post was last reviewed or updated January, 2023. In the previous blog post of this series, I discuss MySQL parameters used to optimize replication in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL and best practices related to them. In today’s post, I discuss the most important and commonly used MySQL parameters for […]