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One of the most important questions when discussing databases is “How will we backup and restore our data?” Backups are a central component of any disaster recovery strategy and are primarily governed by your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO). You want to make sure your backup strategy supports your needs with […]

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AWS launched Amazon Database Migration Accelerator (Amazon DMA) to accelerate your journey to AWS Databases and Analytics services and achieve cloud adoption benefits such as cost savings and performance improvements. In this post, we share Amazon DMA’s approach to migrate generated columns to PostgreSQL implementations, such as Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible […]

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database for single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. DynamoDB offers built-in security, continuous backups, automated multi-Region replication, 99.999% availability SLA, and data import and export tools. DynamoDB was built working backward from the needs of external customers and internally at Amazon.com to overcome the scale and […]

AWS launched Amazon Database Migration Accelerator (Amazon DMA) to accelerate your journey to AWS Databases and Analytics services and achieve cloud adoption benefits such as cost savings and performance improvements. In this post, we share how the Amazon DMA team helped a-tune accelerate their migrations to AWS Databases and Analytics services. a-tune offers data and […]

When using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, managing updates is an ongoing management process for database administrators. Minor version updates are a component of this process—they contain database patches, and bug fixes are a much more common management task to orchestrate. AWS provides mechanisms that assist in applying updates, but you are able to decide when […]

In Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), an RDS event indicates a change in the environment. These events are delivered in real-time to Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EventBridge. RDS events are notifications that are triggered by specific database events in Amazon RDS. These events can include automated backups, security updates, maintenance windows, and other changes […]

SAP SQL Anywhere (also known as Sybase SQL Anywhere) is a database which is widely used in Information Technology and Services industry. Migration from SAP SQL Anywhere to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for SQL Server or Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is challenging because as of writing this post, […]

In this post, we show you how to use scheduled queries in Amazon Timestream to improve your query performance and reduce cost. Scheduled queries make real-time analytics more performant and cost-effective, so you can derive additional insights from your data and continue to make better business decisions. Timestream is a serverless time series database that […]

One of the steps in migrating a database to the cloud involves transferring existing data from the source (on premises) to the target (cloud). For medium and large databases, such as those ranging from hundreds of gigabytes to 5 terabytes, speed of data transfer matters. One of the challenges is to minimize the downtime of […]