Category: Announcements

In this post, we introduce postgres_get_av_diag(), a new function available in RDS for PostgreSQL to monitor aggressive autovacuum blockers. By using this function, you can identify and address performance and availability risks through actionable insights provided by postgres_get_av_diag().

Today, we’re excited to inform you about a new generative AI feature in DMS SC. You can now use advanced language models to streamline and enhance your migration workflow. In this post, we discuss the key capabilities of DMS SC with generative AI and how to enable it to offer you additional recommendations to reduce manual conversion effort and time.

Today, we introduce Amazon Aurora DSQL, the fastest serverless distributed SQL database for always available applications. It offers virtually unlimited scale, highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. It can scale to meet any workload demand without database sharding or instance upgrades. In this post, we discuss the benefits of Aurora DSQL and how to get started.

Today, we are adding support for Valkey 8.0 on Amazon ElastiCache. ElastiCache version 8.0 for Valkey brings faster scaling for ElastiCache Serverless and memory optimizations for node-based clusters. In this post, we discuss these improvements and how you can benefit from them.

Today, Amazon RDS has announced support for MySQL version 8.4, which is the latest Long-Term Support (LTS) major version from the MySQL community. With that, Amazon RDS now supports MySQL Community Edition versions 8.0 and 8.4. In addition to the two community-supported LTS releases, Amazon RDS also offers MySQL 5.7 under RDS Extended Support, where RDS provides critical patches and bug fixes for the engine. For any of these versions, you can bring your existing MySQL code, applications, and tools to Amazon RDS. With MySQL 8.4, the MySQL community has introduced, as well as retired, multiple features, which are listed in the MySQL 8.4 reference manual. In this post, we explore some of these features, list known breaking changes, and provide recommendations to ease the migration of your workloads to this version.

Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 now supports scaling capacity down to 0 ACUs, enabling you to optimize costs during periods of database inactivity. Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, auto scaling configuration of Aurora that automatically adjusts your database capacity based on your workload requirements. Aurora Serverless measures database capacity in Aurora Capacity Units (ACUs) billed per second. 1 […]

Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL, fully managed database service that delivers single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. AWS recently announced the general availability of attribute-based access control (ABAC) for Amazon DynamoDB. ABAC is an authorization strategy that defines permissions based on attributes. In AWS, these attributes are called tags. You can attach tags to […]

Our continued engineering investments on how efficiently we can operate DynamoDB allow us to identify and pass on cost savings to you. Effective November 1, 2024, DynamoDB has reduced prices for on-demand throughput by 50% and global tables by up to 67%, making it more cost-effective than ever to build, scale, and optimize applications. In this post, we discuss the benefits of these price reductions, on-demand mode, and global tables.

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now allows you to directly join your DB instances to the domains of Microsoft Active Directory (AD). In this post, we show how to join RDS Custom DB instances to an AD for Windows Authentication. This applies to AD domains running in a self-managed environment either on premises or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and AWS Managed Microsoft AD.

In this post, we discuss the challenges with traditional data analytics mechanisms, our approach to solve them, and how you can use Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift, which is generally available as of October 15th, 2024.