Category: Database

You can now encrypt your Amazon RDS for SQL Server and Amazon RDS for Oracle databases using keys that you manage through AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) (this feature was already available for Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL). The encryption applies to data at rest on the underlying storage for […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy for you to set up, operate, and scale a MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or Oracle relational database in the cloud. Today we are adding support for version 9.4.1 of PostgreSQL to RDS. Among other features, this version allows you to store JSON data in a compact, […]

April 30, 2018: We’ve discontinued Amazon Mobile Analytics. Amazon Pinpoint now provides the analytics features that Amazon Mobile Analytics previously offered. If you’re new to Mobile Analytics, you can integrate the mobile analytics features of Amazon Pinpoint into your app. If you currently use Amazon Mobile Analytics, you can migrate to Amazon Pinpoint.   The […]

A few months ago, I discussed 20 new features from Amazon Redshift, our petabyte-scale, fully managed data warehouse service that lets you get started for free and costs as little as $1,000 per TB per year. The Amazon Redshift team has released over 100 new features since the launch, with a focus on price, performance, […]

Let’s say you are building a data-intensive application. It might be for gaming, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) or simply a modern web application.  You are customer-driven and you derive satisfaction from being able to rapidly respond to the ever-changing needs of your users. Their requirements are quickly evolving and the application needs to evolve […]

Developers all over the world are using Amazon DynamoDB to build applications that take advantage of its ability to provide consistent low-latency performance. The developers that I have talked to enjoy the flexibility provided by DynamoDB’s schemaless model, along with the ability to scale capacity up and down as needed.  They also benefit from the […]

Encryption of stored data (often referred to as “data at rest”) is an important part of any data protection plan. Today we are making it easier for you to encrypt data at rest in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) database instances running MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle Database. Before today’s release you had the following […]

For many years, AWS customers have used tags to organize their EC2 resources (instances, images, load balancers, security groups, and so forth), RDS resources (DB instances, option groups, and more), VPC resources (gateways, option sets, network ACLS, subnets, and the like) Route 53 health checks, and S3 buckets. Tags are used to label, collect, and […]