AWS Database Blog

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports trusted PL/Rust, allowing developers to safely build high-performance database functions in the Rust programming language. PL/Rust is an open-source project that lets you write Rust code that runs directly inside a PostgreSQL database, and provides support for PostgreSQL features such as running queries, writing trigger […]

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud. Aurora combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. Aurora has a history of innovating around database engines and the underlying infrastructure running the database, while maintaining compatibility. A commonly used feature of […]

Amazon Aurora Global Database is specifically designed to meet the needs of globally distributed applications. It replicates your data across AWS Regions with no impact on database performance, enables fast local reads with low latency in each Region, and provides disaster recovery from Region-wide outages. Many organizations use Aurora Global Database in a headless configuration. […]

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 […]

Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader with more than $5 billion in revenues, provides the critical infrastructure that powers investing, corporate governance, and communications to enable better financial lives. We deliver technology-driven solutions that drive digital transformation for banks, broker-dealers, asset and wealth managers and public companies. Broadridge’s infrastructure serves as a […]

Deliveroo operates a hyperlocal, three-sided marketplace, connecting local consumers, restaurants and grocers, and riders to fulfil purchases in under 30 minutes. By offering fast and reliable delivery that consumers can track online, Deliveroo has grown rapidly. It operates in several markets worldwide, working with thousands of restaurants, grocers, and riders, and serving millions of consumers. […]

In our previous post Use a self-hosted Active Directory with Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server, we explained the manual steps to join Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server to a self-hosted Active Directory. We highlighted the importance of using repeatable, idempotent scripts because changes would be lost on new instances, […]

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 […]

In this post, we compare the high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) features of Amazon Aurora to Oracle, with a focus of the Aurora disk subsystem and how this key innovation allows Amazon Aurora Global Database to deliver performance and availability. Data today is increasingly seen as a corporate asset, and safeguarding this asset is a key focus for many businesses. When that data exists in a database, the vendors of these systems produce methods […]