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Design a use case-driven, highly scalable multimodel database solution using Amazon Neptune

If you’re an architect tasked with designing a solution with complex data requirements, you may decide to adopt a multimodel approach, combining multiple data models, possibly spanning multiple database technologies. For each model, you choose the best technology for the purpose at hand. AWS offers 15+ purpose-built engines to support diverse data models, including relational, […]

Leverage pgvector and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL for Natural Language Processing, Chatbots and Sentiment Analysis

March 2024: This post was reviewed and updated to include Amazon Bedrock models (Titan and Anthropic Claude). Generative AI – a category of artificial intelligence algorithms that can generate new content based on existing data — has been hailed as the next frontier for various industries, from tech to financial services, e-commerce and healthcare. And […]

Migrate a multi-TB SQL Server database to Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server using Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS

This is the first in a two-part series of posts on how to migrate a multi-TB database to Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that automates setup, operation, backups, high availability, and scaling of databases while granting access to the […]

Cross-account Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL migration with reduced downtime using AWS DMS

Migrating an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition or Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL database from one AWS account to another is a common use case in scenarios when you acquire, sell, or merge operations, or if you’re reorganizing your AWS accounts and organizational structure. In this post, we discuss the steps and best […]

Migrate PostgreSQL from Google Cloud Platform to Amazon RDS with minimal downtime

In this post, we walk you through a procedure to migrate the PostgreSQL database from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Cloud SQL to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL. To accomplish this task, we use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), a data migration and replication service. Using AWS DMS you can do the […]

Stream data from Amazon DocumentDB to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose using AWS Lambda

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. In this post, we discuss how to create the data pipelines from Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and publish changes to your destination store. Amazon DocumentDB (with […]

Working with accent-insensitive collations with Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL

Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL includes support for the SQL Server wire-protocol and T-SQL, which is the query language used in Microsoft SQL Server. This means that developers can use Babelfish to run their existing SQL Server applications on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition without having to switch database drivers or completely rewrite their queries. If you’re […]

Generate AWR reports for Amazon RDS for Oracle read replicas

Oracle database administrators rely on tools such as Oracle’s Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) report to identify and resolve issues that are occurring in a database. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle allows you to create read replicas to offload read-only workloads. Because the instances are read only, you can’t generate AWR reports to […]

AWS Nitro Enclaves for running Ethereum validators – Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, we gave a high-level introduction to an AWS Nitro Enclaves-based Web3Signer blockchain validation and signing service. We explained the purpose of running blockchain validators and also why Nitro Enclaves are well suited to run security sensitive cryptographic workloads. We furthermore covered the high-level application architecture and briefly explained the […]

Generate a distinct set of partition keys for an Amazon DynamoDB table efficiently

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. Every table in DynamoDB has a schema which specifies if it has a simple partition key (for pure key-value lookups), or a partition key and sort key both (for more complex query patterns). You use these […]