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Customers are migrating to Amazon Redshift to modernize their data warehouse solution and help save on their licensing, support, operations, and maintenance costs. To migrate data from an on-premises data warehouse to Amazon Redshift, you can use services such as AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT), Amazon Simple Storage […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database (DB) environment. It helps automate the setup, operation, and scaling of databases in the cloud while granting access to the database and underlying operating […]

Migrating workloads from PostgreSQL to a data warehouse like Amazon Redshift can pose challenges during the change data capture (CDC) phase when dealing with partitioned tables. In this post, we illustrate how we can migrate data from PostgreSQL partitioned tables to a single table on the target database using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS). […]

Amazon RDS Proxy is a fully managed, highly available database proxy service. You don’t need to provision or manage any additional infrastructure to start using RDS Proxy. In addition to this, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) completely manages maintenance activities for RDS Proxy such as upgrades and patching, which are carried out gradually in […]

Customers within a variety of industries (healthcare and life sciences, financial services, and retail, among others) require a stronger security posture. Particularly, if the databases being hosted contain sensitive data such as credit card numbers or national identification numbers (for example, US Social Security numbers), providing a solution that allows you to encrypt this data […]

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 […]

July 2023: This post was reviewed for accuracy. AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) is a managed migration and replication service that helps move your database and analytics workloads to AWS quickly, securely, and with minimal downtime and zero data loss. AWS DMS can migrate your data from AWS DMS supported sources to AWS DMS […]

The new proof-of-stake consensus mechanism on Ethereum blockchain network allows network participants to earn rewards without spending a lot of computational power for playing a part in securing the network. Unlike miners, validators don’t need to spend many CPU cycles to produce new blocks. They stake 32 ETH (the native cryptocurrency on Ethereum) to be […]

To migrate an Oracle database to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, you usually need to perform both automated and manual tasks. The automated tasks include schema conversion and data migration, which can be handled with the AWS Schema Conversion Tool (AWS SCT) and AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), respectively. The manual tasks involve post-schema AWS […]

In this post, you learn how to deploy a cloud-based development environment with which to build, test, and deploy smart contracts on the public Ethereum Goerli testnet via a dedicated Ethereum full node managed using Amazon Managed Blockchain. You can also use the steps outlined in this post to create a development environment on the […]