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In this post, we show you two ways to schedule the scaling of your Amazon DocumentDB instance-based clusters to address anticipated read traffic patterns. By aligning your Amazon DocumentDB cluster scaling operations with the anticipated read traffic patterns, you can achieve optimal performance during peak loads and save costs by reducing the need to overprovision your cluster.

Building upon our work with the Advanced JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) Wrapper Driver, we are continuing to enhance the scalability and resiliency of today’s modern applications that are built with Python. The Advanced Python Wrapper Driver has been released as an open-source project under the Apache 2.0 License. You can find the project on GitHub. In this post, we provide details on how to use some of the features of the Advanced Python Wrapper Driver.

As SQL Server 2014 approaches its end of support on July 9, 2024, it’s crucial to understand your options and take a proactive approach in planning and upgrading your SQL Server databases to the latest version. In this post we show you how to leverage AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) automation to upgrade your current RDS for SQL Server 2014 instance to a more recent supported version.

Amazon Neptune 1.3.2.0 now supports the Apache TinkerPop 3.7.x release line, introducing many major new features and improvements. In this post, we highlight the features that have the greatest impact on Gremlin developers using Neptune, to help you understand the implications of upgrading to these versions of Neptune and TinkerPop.

In this post, we show you how to import multiple Enhanced Monitoring metrics to CloudWatch and use the full capabilities of CloudWatch on those metrics.

Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics is a fast, scalable, and serverless time-series database that makes it straightforward and cost-effective to store and analyze trillions of events per day. You can use Timestream for LiveAnalytics for use cases like monitoring hundreds of millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, industrial equipment, gaming sessions, streaming video sessions, financial, […]

In this post, I build upon the approach of the previous post and show how you can use TinkerGraph to unit test your transactional workloads. Additionally, I show how to use TinkerGraph in embedded mode. Embedded mode requires the use of Java, but it simplifies the test environment considerably as there is no need to run the server as a separate process.

With AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), you can migrate your data from relational databases and data warehouses to AWS or a combination of a cloud and on-premises configurations. In June 2023, AWS DMS Serverless was released, which automatically provisions, scales, and manages migration resources to make database migrations straightforward and more cost-effective. It removes the necessity of handling infrastructure tasks like capacity estimation, provisioning, cost-optimization, and managing versions and patching. In this post, we provide an overview of this new feature and present benchmarking results for two use cases.

AWS has introduced a new feature in AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) that simplifies the migration of data from IBM Db2 databases with the Database Partitioning Feature (DPF) databases to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), a highly scalable and durable object storage service. With this new capability, you can now migrate your data from IBM Db2 DPF databases to Amazon S3, paving the way for building robust data lakes in the cloud. This new feature streamlines the migration process, provides data integrity, and minimizes the risk of data loss or corruption, even when dealing with large volumes of data distributed across multiple partitions and databases of varying sizes. In this post, we delve into the intricacies of this new AWS DMS feature and demonstrate how to implement it. We explore best practices for orchestrating data flows and optimizing the migration process, achieving a smooth transition from on-premises IBM Db2 DPF databases to a cloud-based data lake on Amazon S3.

In this post, we show you how to set up bi-directional replication between an on-premises MySQL instance and an Aurora MySQL instance. We cover how to configure and set up bi-directional replication and address important operational concepts such as monitoring, troubleshooting, and high availability. In certain use cases, native bi-directional binary log replication can either provide a simpler fallback plan for your migration or provide a way to migrate applications or schemas individually, rather than all at the same time.