AWS Database Blog

Adopting lift and shift or rehost migration approach can be a viable option for time-sensitive scenarios, particularly when transitioning from an on-premises data center environment. However, it’s crucial to ensure that the chosen migration strategy aligns with your organization’s overall cloud adoption strategy to realize the long-term benefits of cloud-native architectures. For many applications, a […]

Financial services customers choose DynamoDB for security, resilience, performance, and scale. In this post, we discuss how Amazon DynamoDB helps financial services customers overcome these challenges for common industry use cases. We also share customer examples, such as Fidelity Investments, Experian, Moody’s, and other financial services applications that are built with DynamoDB.

In this post, we show you a recent improvement for Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployment switchovers to reduce your overall downtime when you have a large number of connections to your database. Blue/Green Deployments enforce safety measures to make sure that the switchover from your blue environment to the green environment maintains data consistency. For reference, […]

Over 16 million users around the world, including 95% of the S&P Fortune 500, use RocketReach to power their sales, recruitment, and marketing teams. RocketReach connects professionals to new people and opportunities, powered by the most comprehensive, accurate contact information database with easy-to-use tools to simplify their customer’s workflow. High-quality data is the North Star […]

In this post, we show you how to replicate data between partitioned and non-partitioned tables using trigger functions in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. The solution also works with Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL. Customers often decide to migrate partial applications and their associated database objects to AWS, which requires synchronizing data from […]

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) helps you accelerate your database migrations to AWS. It supports both homogeneous and heterogeneous migrations. Previously, you had to download the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) to assess and convert your schema and code objects. Now, with AWS DMS Schema Conversion (DMS SC), you can assess, convert, and […]

August, 2024: Updated for accuracy. You may have seen the recent notifications to rotate your SSL/TLS certificates in Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora, or you may have already received notification from AWS about updating your Amazon DocumentDB TLS certificates before they update starting in August 2024. If you are using Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) […]

Amazon Robotics (AR) designs advanced robotic solutions so the Amazon fulfillment network can meet delivery promises for millions of customers every day. AR builds critical software that controls over a half a million mobile robots used in hundreds of Amazon sites spanning North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. With a focus on engineering efficiency, the […]

In the fast-paced realm of digital transformation, organizations are navigating a landscape of unprecedented change and opportunity. As businesses evolve to meet the demands of modern consumers and markets, the need for agile delivery of enhancements to existing applications is becoming more and more essential. Zero downtime during application deployment is one of the key […]

Database migration is a critical aspect of modern IT operations, especially when you need to switch database systems while ensuring minimal downtime and data loss. AWS DMS Serverless is a feature of AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) that provides automatic provisioning, scaling, built-in high availability, and a reduced billing model based on workload changes […]