Tag: Amazon RDS

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) in Asia Pacific (Osaka) now offers export of snapshot data to Amazon S3 in Apache Parquet format, an efficient open columnar storage format for analytics. The Parquet format is up to 2x faster to export and consumes up to 6x less storage in Amazon S3, compared to text formats. The exported data can be analyzed using AWS tools such as Amazon Athena and Amazon SageMaker, or an open source big data framework such as Apache Spark. Data can be exported with a few clicks using the Amazon RDS Management Console, or with the ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, offering performance and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports the new minor versions for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and 2017 on the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise Editions ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, you can also now launch additional memory configurations of the R5 instance class in the following AWS Region: Asia Pacific (Jakarta). Many Oracle database workloads require high memory, storage and I/O bandwidth but can safely reduce the number of vCPUs without impacting application performance. Providing up to 768 GiB of memory and a 32:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio, the new configurations allow customers to right-size their workloads and save on compute and licensing costs ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Relational Database Service (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. One way to view Performance Insights data is in the AWS Management Console. Performance Insights also provides a public API so that you can query your own data. We are now launching three new API endpoints: GetResourceMetadata, ListAvailableResourceDimensions, and ListAvailableResourceMetrics. These new APIs provide programmatic access to metadata about the metrics collected by Performance Insights. This makes it easier to ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Following the announcement of updates in MySQL database versions 5.7 and 8.0, we have updated Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL to support MySQL minor versions 5.7.36, and 8.0.27. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Learn more about upgrading your database instances in the Amazon RDS User Guide, and create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database using the latest available minor versions in ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) in Multidimensional mode. There is no additional cost to install SSAS directly on your Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instance ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy is now available in the Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), EU (Milano), EU (Paris), EU (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (Sao Paulo) AWS Regions. RDS Proxy is a fully managed and a highly available database proxy for RDS and Amazon Aurora databases. RDS Proxy helps improve application scalability, resiliency, and security. Many applications, including those built on modern serverless architectures, may need to have a high number of open connections to the database or may frequently open and close database connections, exhausting the database ... 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, see the Amazon RDS patch update documentation. 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 the maintenance window. To learn ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The primary functions of Oracle Connection Manager are access control and session multiplexing. CMAN allows rule-based Access Control configuration to filter out user-specified client requests. This allows CMAN to reject connections from unknown clients. CMAN is used to configure session multiplexing by funneling multiple client sessions through a network connection to a shared server destination. Session multiplexing in CMAN reduces operating system and network resource requirements by minimizing the number of network connections made to a server ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.5.13, 10.4.22, 10.3.32, and 10.2.41. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. You can leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including automatic minor version upgrades, in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS ... Read More