AWS Database Blog

Database audits are one of the important compliance requirements that organizations need to meet. You might be required to capture, store, and retain the audit data for the long term. You also need to meet your organization’s information security regulations and standards. In this post, we show you how to capture and store audit data […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle allows you to run Oracle databases on AWS, giving you some of the benefits of Amazon RDS automation and the freedom of changing configurations to match different use cases. You can customize your database, underlying server, and operating system configurations to accommodate the specific needs of […]

In today’s digital age, ecommerce has become an integral part of our lives, offering convenience and endless product options at our fingertips. To enhance online shopping experience, retailers use personalized product recommendations as a key strategy to engage customers and boost sales. Among the cutting-edge technologies fueling this revolution is the vector database, a powerful […]

A common challenge customers face as their business grows is providing the same level of service to their end-users. Most often, databases become bottlenecks as usage outgrows capacity. Caching strategies may help improve performance by offloading frequently used data to a cache like Redis. This requires additional overhead in keeping your cache up to date. […]

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, […]

Although the application layer is the portion the world accesses for many cloud architectures, it seems that we rarely consider how we can optimize our application for the database we’re using. When using any relational database engine, it’s important to consider not just schema design, but understanding how databases read and write data to their […]

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 indeed, we’re already seeing the many ways Generative AI is being adopted. ChatGPT is one example of […]

Monitoring is an important aspect for any relational database management system (RDBMS). A good monitoring setup gives us better visibility and control of our database setups. Many of our customers use Amazon CloudWatch metrics and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) event notifications to monitor different metrics and events. Amazon RDS event subscription offers instance-level […]

This post is targeted at technology and IT delivery leaders who are at the crossroads of application and database modernization and are looking for options and advice on how to get this complex database technology transformation right. The technology for storing and managing data – a database – is an essential element of almost every […]

PostgreSQL is an open-source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance. AWS offers Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora as fully managed relational database services. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition make it […]