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Learn how to migrate from self-managed Apache Cassandra to Amazon Keyspaces with zero downtime by deploying an extended version of the ZDM Proxy on AWS Fargate. This post covers the single CloudFormation stack, the six migration phases from historical data loading through validation and cutover, and security and cost best practices for production workloads.

Learn a complete database administrator workflow for monitoring, diagnosing, and resolving T-SQL query performance issues on Amazon RDS for SQL Server. This post shows how to use Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights, Query Store, and Resource Governor together to detect regressions, diagnose execution plan changes, and isolate analytical workloads.

In this post, we provide practical guidance for designing applications that scale effectively with the Amazon Aurora DSQL distributed architecture. You will learn how to identify common patterns that limit scalability, apply proven design patterns that distribute workload efficiently, and implement transaction strategies optimized for Aurora DSQL. We cover primary key selection, schema design principles, indexing strategies, and multi-Region optimization, while maintaining full ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability) compliance across AWS Regions.

In this post, we show you how to deploy a serverless pipeline that creates an irreversibly redacted, queryable archive of Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL audit logs. The pipeline permanently removes Social Security numbers (SSNs), credit cards, email, names, and more than 30 types of personally identifiable information (PII) before storing clean logs in Amazon S3 for query through Amazon Athena.

Migrate a self-managed PostgreSQL database on Amazon EC2 to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition using the auto-migration capability in the Amazon RDS console, powered by AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) homogeneous data migrations.

In this post, we provide step-by-step instructions for migrating an IBM Db2 database from on-premises AIX or Windows servers to Amazon RDS for Db2 using native Db2 tools (db2look and db2move). We also cover AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) as an alternative approach. It also covers best practices to verify data integrity and minimize cutover time.

When using Amazon DynamoDB, you sometimes want to perform bulk operations against all the items in a table, which has historically required custom coding. The open source Bulk Executor for DynamoDB simplifies bulk tasks like these. You can use this feature to invoke commands like count, find, delete, or update. No coding is required, even when running at large scale. In this post, we explore the built-in capabilities of Bulk Executor and show you how to install and use it for common bulk operations against your DynamoDB tables.

In this post, we show how to rebuild large indexes on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL by combining Amazon Aurora Blue/Green Deployments with Aurora Optimized Reads. By performing the reindex on the green (staging) environment with a Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe)-backed instance class, the sort phase uses fast local storage instead of Amazon EBS over the network, and you avoid impacting production workloads.

AWS Database Migration Service Schema Conversion (DMS SC) converts database objects across heterogeneous systems such as Oracle or SQL Server to PostgreSQL or MySQL. In this post, we show you how DMS SC, with generative AI capabilities, elevates the code conversion experience.

Starting today, you can use AI agents to orchestrate entire AWS DMS Schema Conversion (DMS SC) workflows through natural language. An AI agent manages the full lifecycle, including creating migration projects, browsing source metadata, converting schemas, generating assessment reports, and exporting results, all from a conversational prompt.