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Note: Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports Multi-AZ deployment starting July 1st, 2025. For details, refer to the What’s New post and RDS Custom for Oracle User Guide for Multi-AZ deployment. A high availability solution for the database stack is an important aspect to consider when migrating or deploying Oracle databases in the AWS […]

The command query responsibility segregation (CQRS) pattern, derived from the principle of command-query separation, has been popularized by the domain-driven design community. CQRS architectures that use event sourcing save generated events in an append-only log called an event store. By using event sourcing, you can, among other benefits: Design applications to update a database and […]

When moving from monoliths to microservices, you often need to propagate the same data from the monolith into multiple downstream data stores. These include purpose-built databases serving microservices as part of a decomposition project, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for hydrating a data lake, or as part of a long-running command query responsibility segregation […]

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 […]

Amazon RDS Proxy is a fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) that makes applications more scalable, more resilient to database failures, and more secure. With RDS Proxy, you can handle unpredictable surges in database traffic that might otherwise cause issues due to oversubscribing connections or creating new connections […]

Customers running their business-critical workloads on SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (Sybase ASE) databases can modernize them by migrating to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server and be able to keep Transact-SQL (T-SQL) as their preferred database programming language and Tabular Data Stream (TDS) as their communication protocol, which accelerates the migration and […]

Automating the management of the compute resources associated with your Amazon Neptune database cluster can save you time and money. The most significant cost when running Neptune for your graph workloads are the compute resources in the database cluster. If you’re also using associated resources such as Amazon SageMaker notebook instances, which you can use […]

There are different strategies you can leverage to migrate an on-premises SQL Server workload to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server. All of them come with pros and cons. The following are some high-level migration challenges that you may encounter during your analysis and implementation phase: Lift and shift (backup and […]

Database administrators and developers traditionally schedule scripts to run against databases using the system cron on the host where the database is running or using database schedulers, resulting in a tight coupling with the batch scripts and the database. Many Oracle database applications use files stored in a shared file system volume that is mounted […]

April 2026: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. Customers choose Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server because it manages time-consuming database administration tasks including provisioning, backups, software patching, monitoring, and hardware scaling. With Amazon RDS for SQL Server, you can enable single-click high availability by enabling the Multi-AZ flag in […]