Tag: Amazon RDS

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon RDS Custom is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment. To create an Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle DB instance, you start by building a custom engine version (CEV) by supplying your own database installation media files for a given version. You can create a CEV by choosing the ‘Create’ operation under Custom engine version menu in AWS Management Console or by using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle now supports the promotion of a managed replica that was created using the replica function. When you promote a managed replica, it is converted from a physical standby database and activated as a standalone read/write primary database instance ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL minor versions 14.3, 13.7, 12.11, 11.16, and 10.21. We recommend you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the PostgreSQL community. Please refer to the PostgreSQL community announcement for more details about the release ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. 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 for each engine versions, see the Amazon RDS for Oracle Release notes. If the auto minor version upgrade (AmVU) option is enabled, the DB instance is upgraded to the latest quarterly PSU or RU six to eight weeks after it is made available by Amazon RDS for Oracle in your AWS region. These upgrades will happen during ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon RDS for MySQL supports encrypted SSL/TLS connections to the database instances. Starting today, you can enforce SSL/TLS client connections to your RDS for MySQL database instance for enhanced transport layer security. To enforce SSL/TLS, simply enable the require_secure_transport parameter (disabled by default) through the Amazon RDS Management Console, the AWS CLI or the API. When the require_secure_transport parameter is enabled, a database client will be able to connect to the RDS for MySQL instance only if it can establish an encrypted connection. To learn more about enforcing encrypted client connections using require_secure_transport parameter, please refer to ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon RDS Proxy sits between your application and the database to pool and share established database connections, improving database efficiency and application scalability. In case of a failure, Amazon RDS Proxy automatically connects to a standby database instance while preserving connections from your application and reduces failover times for Amazon RDS for MariaDB multi-AZ databases by up to 66%. With Amazon RDS Proxy, database credentials and access can be managed through AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), eliminating the need to embed database credentials in the application. You can enable Amazon RDS Proxy ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. R5b DB instances are available for Amazon RDS for MariaDB databases in the AWS US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Tokyo) regions. They are offered in 8 sizes, providing up to 96 vCPUs, 768 GiB of memory, 25 Gbps of networking bandwidth, and 60 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth. For complete information on pricing and regional availability, please refer to the Amazon RDS for MariaDB pricing page. Launch an R5b DB instance for Amazon RDS for MariaDB in the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the AWS CLI today ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments provide enhanced availability and durability for Amazon RDS DB instances, making them a natural fit for production database workloads. Although continuing to use network storage for durability, this new deployment option optimizes transaction commit performance using local instance storage on your choice of AWS Graviton2 R6gd or M6gd DB instances. This configuration supports up to 2x faster transaction commits than a Multi-AZ DB instance deployment with one standby, without compromising data durability. Automated failovers in this configuration typically take under 35 seconds. In addition, the standby DB instances can also serve read traffic ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Performance Insights is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Amazon RDS Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature of RDS and Aurora that helps you quickly assess the load on your database and determine when and where to take action. RDS Performance Insights allows non-experts to measure database performance with a simple-to-understand dashboard that visualizes database load. With one click, you can add a fully managed performance monitoring solution to your Amazon Aurora clusters and Amazon RDS instances. RDS Performance Insights automatically gathers necessary performance metrics ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Backup is a policy-based service that provides you a fully managed experience to centralize and automate data protection of your application data spanning across AWS services for compute, database, and storage. To start protecting your RDS Multi-AZ clusters with AWS Backup, add your RDS Multi-AZ clusters to your existing backup plans or create a new backup plan specifying backup frequency, lifecycle settings, and tagging preferences and attach your RDS clusters to the newly created backup plan. AWS Backup for Amazon RDS Multi-AZ clusters is available in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West ... Read More