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Automate the Amazon Aurora MySQL blue/green deployment process
December, 2022: Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments to help you with safer, simpler, and faster updates to your Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS databases. Blue/Green Deployments create a fully managed staging environment that allows you to deploy and test production changes, keeping your current production database safe. Learn […]
Preparing on-premises and AWS environments for external Kerberos authentication for Amazon RDS
As database security becomes more and more essential to the success of a business, managing user access to databases effectively has always been a challenge to database administrators (DBAs) and security officers. Traditional database authentication is based on a username-password mechanism. This method unfortunately requires effort from both DBAs and users to maintain the credentials; […]
Configuring SSL encryption on Oracle and PostgreSQL endpoints in AWS DMS
August 2025: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) helps you migrate databases to AWS securely. It supports homogeneous and heterogeneous migrations between different database platforms, such as Oracle to Amazon Aurora. AWS DMS supports continuous data replication while maintaining high availability and has been widely adopted for database […]
Best practices for configuring parameters for Amazon RDS for MySQL, part 3: Parameters related to security, operational manageability, and connectivity timeout
August 2025: This post was reviewed for accuracy. In the previous blog post of this series, I discuss MySQL parameters used to optimize replication in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL and best practices related to them. In today’s post, I discuss the most important and commonly used MySQL parameters for implementing various […]