AWS Database Blog

Many organizations these days have a mandate to comply with database regulatory and compliance requirements. Storing and using relevant metadata for these requirements has become extremely important. This is the second of a two-part post. In Part 1, we discussed two approaches to audit Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition databases: the Database Activity Streams feature and […]

July 2026: This post provides a conceptual comparison of two ways to audit Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL — Database Activity Streams and the pgAudit extension — and remains broadly accurate. The companion hands-on implementation (previously published as “Part 2”) has been retired because it contained known technical issues and is no longer maintained. For current, maintained […]

Many AWS customers are looking to solve their business problems by storing and integrating data across a combination of purpose-built databases. The reason for that is purpose-built databases provide innovative ways to build data access patterns that would be challenging or inefficient to solve otherwise. For example, we can model highly connected geospatial data as […]

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads. Amazon DocumentDB emulates the responses that a client expects from a MongoDB server by implementing the Apache 2.0 open-source MongoDB 3.6, 4.0 or 5.0 APIs on a purpose-built, distributed, fault-tolerant, and self-healing storage system that […]

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) is a managed service that you can use to migrate data from various source data engines to supported targets. When migrating data from an Oracle source to PostgreSQL-compatible target, you often encounter special data type transformation scenarios that require using the rich set of transformation rules AWS DMS provides. […]

Many organizations are benefiting from the performance gains and ease of administration of the Amazon Aurora database platform. The idea of breaking free from commercial licenses, backup administration, and data center maintenance is always a welcome thought. But where to begin, and how complex is the journey to migrate from SQL Server to Amazon Aurora […]

June 2023: For Aurora databases where IO is greater than 25% of your costs, check out this blog post and recent announcement to see if you can save money with Aurora I/O-Optimized. Amazon Aurora combines the performance and availability of commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. An Aurora cluster consists of […]

Database performance monitoring is critical for application availability and productivity. A good monitoring practice can ensure a small issue is identified in time before it develops into a big problem and causes service disruption. In the AWS Cloud, you can use analytical and monitoring tools like Amazon RDS Performance Insights and Amazon CloudWatch metrics and […]

Traditionally, companies have run most of their workloads using relational databases, and they have been the most popular choice for data management for over three decades. Relational databases are rooted in the relational model as proposed by E.F. Codd and C.J. Date in the 1980s. Relational databases support a wide variety of use cases, from […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Security is a key factor to consider when choosing or migrating to a database. Cloud security at AWS is the highest priority. Security and compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer. This shared model can help relieve your operational burden, because AWS allows you […]