Category: Amazon RDS

Migrating a production database is a high-risk operational event. AWS DMS is a cloud service that migrates relational databases, data warehouses, and other data stores into the AWS Cloud or between environments. It moves the rows reliably, but the failures that page an on-call engineer rarely happen during the data copy. They occur in the […]

Earlier today, Amazon Q Developer announced Model Context Protocol (MCP) support in the command line interface (CLI). Developers can connect external data sources to Amazon Q Developer CLI with MCP support for more context-aware responses. By integrating MCP tools and prompts into Q Developer CLI, you get access to an expansive list of pre-built integrations […]

In major integration merges, it’s sometimes necessary to verify the changes with existing online data. To inspect the changes with a cloned database can give us confidence to deploy to the production database. This post demonstrates how to use AWS CodeBuild and Amazon RDS Database Snapshot to verify your code revisions in both the application […]