AWS Database Blog

Monthly releases are always hectic, and companies face challenges with SQL deployments and schema versioning. It’s very time-consuming when multiple developers are developing code and need to run multiple SQL files across multiple production databases. To maintain environment integrity and consistency across applications, code and schema changes need to sync across multiple non-production and production […]

End of support notice: On March 31, 2027, AWS will end support for Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle. Existing customers can continue using the service until March 31, 2027. After March 31, 2027, you will no longer be able to access RDS Custom for Oracle resources including database instances, snapshots, and custom engine versions. We […]

End of support notice: On March 31, 2027, AWS will end support for Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle. Existing customers can continue using the service until March 31, 2027. After March 31, 2027, you will no longer be able to access RDS Custom for Oracle resources including database instances, snapshots, and custom engine versions. We […]

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis. On 8/19/2021, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, a fully managed, Redis-compatible database, that delivers both in-memory performance and Multi-AZ durability. Over the past year, thousands of customers have adopted MemoryDB as their primary database for critical workloads […]

February, 2025: As of November 1, 2024, Amazon DynamoDB has reduced its pricing, offering a 50% reduction for on-demand throughput. These post was updated to reflect this change. For complete details about these pricing changes, visit New – Amazon DynamoDB lowers pricing for on-demand throughput and global tables. Today we’re launching new functionality that makes […]

Many organizations prefer infrastructure as code (IaC) for provisioning and maintaining IT infrastructure. With IaC, you can replicate DevOps practices for application code such as storing the infrastructure code in a source control system, automated testing, and automated deployment through a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. AWS CloudFormation is an IaC service that […]

This is a guest post by Alex DeBrie, an AWS Hero. For people learning about Amazon DynamoDB, the idea of single-table design is one of the most mind-bending concepts out there. Rather than the relational notion of having a table per entity, DynamoDB tables often include multiple different entities in a single table. You can […]

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy to store, query, and index JSON data. Amazon DocumentDB has added support for auditing Data Manipulation Language […]

Amazon RDS Proxy is a fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) that makes applications more scalable, more resilient to database failures, and more secure. With RDS Proxy, you can handle unpredictable surges in database traffic that might otherwise cause issues due to oversubscribing connections or creating new connections […]

We all have our own individual identity in this world. It may be a home address or unique ID card number. But have you ever considered how you are perceived online? Generalizing, have you ever considered how complex or large a system should be to accommodate all unique identifiers around the world, considering devices also […]