AWS Database Blog

It’s important to understand strategies for how to use pgvector with your Generative AI applications so you can find the optimal configurations. This can include the selection of your database instance family, how you ingest your data, and even the version of pgvector you’re using. We ran a series of tests to see how pgvector […]

Monitoring is an important aspect of database management. Database administrators, application teams, and architects want to proactively eradicate performance issues before they affect users or cause an outage. To achieve this, they need the right level of visibility into database health indicators. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) provides monitoring tools, such as Enhanced Monitoring […]

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, that combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. Global Database is an Aurora feature designed for globally distributed applications, allowing a single Amazon Aurora database to span multiple AWS Regions. A Global […]

When thinking about modernizing an Oracle Database to an open-source database on AWS, options include Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL, Amazon RDS for MariaDB, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, or Amazon Aurora. The choice of target database is usually dependent on three major factors: Database conversion or refactoring efforts The enterprise-wide decision on […]

Generative AI is a form of artificial intelligence (AI) that is designed to generate content, including text, images, video, and music. In today’s business landscape, harnessing the potential of generative AI has become essential to remain competitive. Foundation models are a form of generative AI. They generate output from one or more inputs (prompts) in […]

In this post, we present a solution to identify PII data using Amazon Macie, mask it using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), and migrate it from an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle production source database to an RDS for Oracle development target database, before releasing the environment to users. This way, you can save time and make sure that sensitive data is protected.

Amazon Connect is an easy-to-use cloud contact center solution that helps companies of any size deliver superior customer service at a lower cost. Connect has many real-time monitoring capabilities. For requirements that go beyond those supported out of the box, Amazon Connect also provides you with data and APIs you can use to implement your […]

In April 2023, AWS announced the ability to power Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances with the AWS Graviton3 processor. AWS Graviton3 was announced in May 2022 and is built using a custom-designed ARM architecture using ARM Neoverse cores, optimized for delivering high performance and energy efficiency. AWS Graviton3 provides up to 25% better […]

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database designed to run high-performance applications at any scale. DynamoDB recently launched a new feature: Incremental export to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). You can use incremental exports to update your downstream systems regularly using only the changed data. You no longer need to do a […]

Cloud computing has changed almost every business and industry by changing the delivery and consumption model. With the Cloud, businesses no longer need to plan for and procure servers and other IT infrastructure weeks or months in advance. This allows more flexibility and reliability, increased performance and efficiency, and helps to lower IT costs. The […]