Tag: Amazon Aurora

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 now supports PostgreSQL major version 11. PostgreSQL 11 includes improvements to partitioning, parallelism, and performance enhancements such as faster column additions with a non-null default ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Aurora now supports R6i instances powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. R6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 memory optimized instances, designed for memory-intensive workloads. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. R6i instances are currently available when using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. To meet customer demands for increased scalability, R6i instances provide a new instance size of 32xlarge with 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB of memory - ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 14 (14.3). PostgreSQL 14 includes performance improvements for parallel queries, heavily-concurrent workloads, partitioned tables, logical replication, and vacuuming. PostgreSQL 14 also improves functionality with new capabilities. For example, you can cancel long-running queries if a client disconnects and you can close idle sessions if they time out. Range types now support multiranges, allowing representation of non-contiguous data ranges, and stored procedures can now return data via OUT parameters. This release includes new features for Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL version 2.1. Please refer to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL updates for more information ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 now supports in-place upgrade from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7. Instead of backing up and restoring the database to the new version, you can upgrade with just a few clicks using the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the latest AWS SDK or CLI. No new cluster is created in the process which means you keep the same endpoints and other characteristics of the cluster. The upgrade completes in minutes as no data needs to be copied to a new cluster volume. The upgrade can be applied immediately or during the maintenance window. Your ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. This release also includes updates to pglogical and wal2json extensions. pglogical is an open source PostgreSQL extension that helps customers replicate data between independent PostgreSQL databases while maintaining consistent read-write access and a mix of private and common data in each database. Amazon Aurora pglogical uses logical replication to copy data changes between independent PostgreSQL databases, optionally resolving conflicts based on standard algorithms. Customers can enable pglogical from within their PostgreSQL instances, and pay only for the additional clusters and cross-region traffic needed, with no upfront costs or software purchases required. Fully integrated, pglogical requires no triggers ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can view a list of all PostgreSQL extensions supported by database version on Amazon Aurora on the AWS User Guide. For full feature parity list, head to our feature parity page, and to see all the regions that support Amazon Aurora head to our region page. Amazon Aurora is designed for unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. It provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, up to 15 read replicas, automated multi-Region replication, and integrations with other AWS services. To get started with Amazon Aurora, take a look ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. ZDP preserves client connections while the database engine restarts. This feature allows you to more frequently upgrade your clusters to newer PostgreSQL minor versions while maintaining business continuity. ZDP is enabled on all Aurora clusters running supported database versions in all regions when you upgrade database minor versions or apply patches. Please review the Aurora documentation for more details. Amazon Aurora is designed for unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. It provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, up to 15 read replicas, automated multi-Region replication, and integrations with ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Marco Tusa; In the last quarter of 2021, AWS released Aurora version 3. This new version aligns Aurora with the latest MySQL 8 version, porting many of the advantages MySQL 8 has over previous versions. While this brings a lot of new interesting features for Aurora, what we are going to cover here is to see how DDLs behave when using the ONLINE option. With a quick comparison with what happens in MySQL 8 standard and with Group Replication. Tests All tests were run on an Aurora instance r6g.large with a secondary availability zone. The test ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next version of Aurora Serverless, is now generally available. Aurora Serverless v2 scales instantly to support even the most demanding applications, delivering up to 90% cost savings compared to provisioning for peak capacity. Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, automatic scaling configuration for Amazon Aurora. Aurora Serverless v2 scales database workloads to hundreds of thousands of transactions in a fraction of a second. It adjusts capacity in fine-grained increments to provide just the right amount of database resources for an application’s needs. You don’t need to manage database capacity, and you pay for ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Aurora combines the performance and availability of traditional commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. It provides up to five times better performance than the standard MySQL database, together with increased scalability, durability, and security. For more information, please visit the Amazon Aurora product page ... Read More