Tag: Amazon RDS

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports major version 13. PostgreSQL 13 includes improved functionality and performance from new features and performance from new features and enhancements such as de-duplication of B-tree index entries, improved performance for queries that use partitioned tables, incremental sorting to accelerate data sorts, parallel processing of indexes with the VACUUM command, more ways to monitor activity within a PostgreSQL database, new security capabilities, and more. This release also adds support for bool_plperl, which simplifies writing Perl procedures. With PostgreSQL 13 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL you can create time series data tables with ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Customers needing to keep an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instance stopped for more than 7 days, look for ways to efficiently re-stop the database after being automatically started by Amazon RDS. If the database is started and there is no mechanism to stop it; customers start to pay for the instance’s hourly cost. Moreover, customers with database licensing agreements could incur penalties for running beyond their licensed cores/users. Stopping and starting a DB instance is faster than creating a DB snapshot, and then restoring the snapshot. However, if you plan to keep the Amazon ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Millions of databases are being migrated to PostgreSQL today. This is because of the liberal PostgreSQL license in particular that invited more contributions to PostgreSQL and eventually made it Enterprise Grade. I have presented and also blogged about some of the rich enterprise features as following, those are otherwise available for an additional cost with some commercial databases. While it is great that there are several features available with Postgres by default, it may be challenging if there are no solutions to help with migrations to postgres. Fortunately, there are several contributions through extensions and Open source ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Emma Button. By Emma Button, Co-Founder at nubeGo Automatically identifying and upgrading existing SSD volumes to take advantage of the new gp3 general purpose volumes for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) can help organizations reduce storage costs by up to 20 percent. It also helps you improve IOPS and throughput of your EBS volumes. In this post, you will learn how to automatically upgrade your existing gp2 volumes, without interruption, to the next generation of general purpose SSD volumes using AWS Systems Manager. The use of AWS Systems Manager to execute Automation ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now offers Always On Availability Groups (AGs) for the Multi-AZ configuration in all AWS Regions on Standard Edition. This new high-availability option meets the requirements of enterprise-grade production workloads on SQL Server.   The Multi-AZ deployment option provides enhanced availability and data durability by automatically replicating databases between two AWS Availability Zones (in the same region). These Availability Zones offer you an easier and more effective way to design and operate applications and databases, making them more highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable than traditional single-datacenter infrastructures or multi-datacenter infrastructures. When you ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Sanjina Srivasta. By Sanjna Srivatsa, Data Scientist at VMware Most enterprises go through the process of monthly chargeback (cost allocation) of their Amazon Web Services (AWS) costs to internal business units or cost centers. The AWS Cost and Usage Report can provide the flexibility needed to create detailed custom billing rules. At the Cloud Business Office of VMware, we wanted a solution that allowed us to leverage the power of the AWS Cost and Usage Report to build a customized chargeback solution quickly. CloudHealth’s FlexReports is a simple solution for companies that have multiple ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the January 2021 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2, 18c, and 19c. January 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1 will be launched soon.   Oracle PSUs contain bug fixes and other critical security updates. Beginning with Oracle Database version 12.2.0.1, Amazon RDS for Oracle supports Release Updates (RU) in place of the PSU. To learn more about the Oracle PSUs supported on Amazon RDS, see the Amazon RDS for Oracle engine release notes ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon RDS adds new events reporting the cause of an Amazon RDS Multi-AZ automated database failover so that you can detect and respond to your outage faster. You can view these failover reasons in the event log.   Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments provide enhanced availability and durability for RDS database (DB) instances, making them a natural fit for production database workloads. Amazon RDS detects and automatically recovers from the most common failure scenarios for Multi-AZ deployments so that you can resume database operations as quickly as possible without administrative intervention. Amazon RDS automatically performs a failover in ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Nishesh Aggarwal. By Nishesh Aggarwal, Strategy & Architecture Manager at ZS AssociatesBy Rohan Kejriwal, Solution Delivery Consultant at ZS Associates The initial part of an organization’s cloud journey is typically focused on moving workloads from traditional, on-premises tech stacks to cloud-based technologies that offer flexibility and scalability. With increasing data variety and volumes, however, it’s become increasingly necessary to ensure all of the workloads run in the most efficient manner to reduce overall turn-around time, as well as total cost of ownership (TCO). One of the most critical factors in achieving these benefits ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Oracle MySQL Group; This post was written by: Nicolas De Rico: Oracle Cloud Solutions Engineer - MySQL Sergio J Castro: Oracle Cloud Solutions Engineer - Networking   From RDS to MDS   When an application reaches the maximum capabilities offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) RDS, it is often recommended to migrate to the AWS Aurora service.   However, Aurora is based on an older version of MySQL.  Aurora still does not support MySQL 8.0, which was released in April 2018.  Therefore, it may be difficult to port applications to Aurora, and later, out of Aurora because of its ... Read More