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In this post, we demonstrate how you can use Spring Cloud to interact with Amazon DynamoDB and capture table-level changes using Kinesis Data Streams through familiar Spring constructs. We run you through a basic implementation and configuration that will help you get started.

In this post, we show you how to implement Application Continuity in an RDS Custom for Oracle environment using a sample application. We also show you how to test the implementation to see that, when an outage occurs at the database tier, the application recovers and resumes without any data loss—automatically and transparently—along with the database failover. Finally, we show you how to verify the results before cleaning up the environment.

In this post, we explain how you can use Amazon RDS IOPS and throughput provisioned settings, automate scaling around monthly and seasonal peaks, and decrease settings during slower weeks. By right-sizing IOPS and throughput levels to your workload’s typical cycles, you can reduce Amazon RDS spend while still getting great performance when you need it most.

Amazon DynamoDB supports incremental exports to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), which enables a variety of use cases for downstream data retention and consumption. In this post, we show you how to maintain a continuously updating export of your table data by doing a bootstrap full export followed by an ongoing series of incremental exports.

When you’re migrating your mission-critical Db2 database from on premises or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to Amazon RDS for Db2, one of the key requirements is to have near-zero downtime. This post demonstrates how to use IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IIDR) Q Replication to migrate data with minimal downtime.

In this post, we explore how to use Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon Bedrock to build Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) compliant generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).

In this post, we show how you can use AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) to migrate relational data from Amazon RDS into compressed archives on Amazon S3. We discuss partitioning strategies for the resulting archive objects and how to use S3 Object Lock to protect the archive objects from modification. Lastly, we demonstrate how to query the archive objects using SQL syntax through Athena with seconds latency, even on large datasets.

In this post, we present a qualitative performance comparison between RDS for PostgreSQL Single-AZ DB instance, Multi-AZ DB instance, and Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB Cluster deployments.

In Part 1 of this series, we demonstrated how to configure interval partitioning in an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition database using PostgreSQL extensions such as pg_partman and pg_cron. The monitoring job was external to the database, thereby allowing a centralized monitoring solution. In this post, we demonstrate how you can monitor and send alerts using […]

Today, customers use document databases for many different types of applications. For example, gaming clients use them for handling users’ attribute information, while a stock application employs a document-oriented database to store chronological quote data. As the number of documents grows over time, you need more compute and storage than what is traditionally offered through […]