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In this post, we discuss temporary tablespace and Flash Cache features with local NVMe SSD-based instance storage, configuration options, typical use cases, and feature availability by engine and storage configuration. We dive deep into the tiered cache capability and how it can improve the query performance of latency-sensitive workloads. We also provide an overview of the temporary object capability.

In this post, we provide a comprehensive guide for addressing performance considerations when migrating Oracle databases from Exadata to Amazon RDS for Oracle. We explore methods to analyze Exadata workload characteristics, including determining Smart IO usage, examining database-level I/O patterns, and identifying SQLs that utilize Exadata-specific features. We also discuss various alternatives available on RDS for Oracle to mitigate potential performance impacts.

In this post we demonstrate, how you can extend your existing AD infrastructure and Kerberos authentication to Amazon RDS for Db2.

Aurora Limitless is a database solution that grows and shrinks vertically and horizontally with the current workload requirements. In this post, we show you how to test performance with the common tool pgbench. This tool is used with single-node database management systems (DBMS) and is optimized for single-node use cases. As we shall see in this post, this doesn’t mean that the tool measure what we think when it comes to multi-node systems. We demonstrate how it works with Aurora Limitless. We also discuss the obstacles and opportunities you might encounter when using this tool with Aurora Limitless.

To ensure that you properly size your Amazon RDS for Db2 instances and achieve comparable or better performance than your on-premises systems, you can use HammerDB. By using this tool, you can generate OLTP-type workloads using TPC-C tests, enabling you to compare performance between your on-premises Db2 and Amazon RDS for Db2 systems. This post guides you through running HammerDB tests on RDS for Db2. We provide a step-by-step process for creating an RDS for Db2 instance using an AWS CloudFormation template, setting up a Db2 client, and configuring HammerDB. You learn how to execute tests and interpret results to properly size your RDS for Db2 instances.

This post outlines a set of design and tuning strategies for a high-speed purge in an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL DB instance and Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition DB cluster. Purge is a housekeeping operation in a MySQL database. The InnoDB storage engine relies on it to clean up undo logs and delete-marked table records that are no longer needed for multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) or rollback operations.

GoldenGate supports Classic and Microservices Architectures. In Part 1 of this series, we covered high availability for GoldenGate classic architecture in AWS. In this post, we discuss a reference architecture for GoldenGate Microservices Architecture (MA) in AWS. The GoldenGate Hub is a widely used deployment model that simplifies operations and lessens the use of system resources on both the source and target systems. This is in contrast to the conventional method where GoldenGate components run directly on the source and target systems.

In this post, we show you how to migrate an Oracle database to an Amazon RDS for Oracle DB instance. The solution uses Oracle Data Pump for initial data load and Oracle GoldenGate Microservices Architecture installed on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance as the Oracle GoldenGate hub for change data capture.

In this post, we discuss how to perform a homogeneous migration from an on-premises Oracle database to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle. For our solution, we use a two-step approach to migrate the source database to Amazon RDS for Oracle. First, we use RMAN to restore the RMAN backup on an EC2 instance, then we use Data Pump to export data to Amazon S3 and restore that in the RDS for Oracle database.

Amazon RDS Proxy is a fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora that makes applications more scalable, secure, and resilient to database failures. With RDS Proxy, you can handle unpredictable surges in database traffic that might otherwise cause issues due to using all available connections or creating new connections at a fast rate. One of the main benefits of RDS Proxy is that it can improve application recovery time while efficiently and automatically handling database failovers, which is valid with both planned and unplanned failovers. For more details, see Improving application availability with Amazon RDS Proxy. For common use cases where RDS Proxy is beneficial, refer to Amazon RDS Proxy FAQs. In this post, we show how to securely and efficiently connect applications in different AWS accounts to an RDS database instance or Aurora cluster using RDS Proxy, AWS PrivateLink, and Network Load Balancer.