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Plan an Oracle migration to Amazon RDS for Oracle using Oracle Data Pump and AWS DMS

Migrating self-managed Oracle databases running on-premises or on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle is a common migration path for customers looking to adopt a managed database solution from AWS. This managed service appeals to customers who are looking to reduce the cost and overhead of […]

Diagram-as-code using generative AI to build a data model for Amazon Neptune

To be successful with a graph database—such as Amazon Neptune, a managed graph database service—you need a graph data model that captures the data you need and can answer your questions efficiently. Building that model is an iterative process. The earliest stage of the process, in which you are merely getting initial elements on paper […]

Amazon RDS Proxy multiplexing support for PostgreSQL Extended Query Protocol

Today, we are announcing Amazon RDS Proxy multiplexing support for PostgreSQL Extended Query Protocol. In this post, you learn about PostgreSQL’s Extended Query Protocol for communication between client and server, its benefits, and how multiplexing support for Extended Query Protocol can improve the connection pooling capability of RDS Proxy, which in turn reduces the overhead […]

Automatically scale Amazon RDS storage using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda

Customer databases are constantly growing. When you increase storage for a database in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), you can’t make further storage modifications for either 6 hours or until storage optimization has completed on the instance, whichever is longer. Amazon RDS storage autoscaling increases storage by 10 GiB, 10% of currently allocated storage, […]

Best practices for sizing your Amazon ElastiCache for Redis clusters

Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is a fully managed Redis- and Memcached-compatible service delivering real-time, cost-optimized performance for modern applications. It scales to hundreds of millions of operations per second with microsecond response time, and offers enterprise-grade security and reliability. You can scale ElastiCache for Redis seamlessly to accommodate changes in your application usage patterns. It […]

Introducing the Amazon Timestream UNLOAD statement: Export time-series data for additional insights

Amazon Timestream is a fully managed, scalable, and serverless time series database service that makes it easy to store and analyze trillions of events per day. Customers across a broad range of industry verticals have adopted Timestream to derive real-time insights, monitor critical business applications, and analyze millions of real-time events across websites and applications. […]

Determining the optimal value for shared_buffers using the pg_buffercache extension in PostgreSQL

In OLTP databases, the buffer cache is memory allocated for storing cached data and dirty pages. Cached data speeds up the retrieval of frequently accessed information, and reading from these cached pages minimizes disk I/O operations. Setting appropriate values for shared_buffers is important for optimal PostgreSQL performance and can lead to significant reductions in overall […]

Accelerate HNSW indexing and searching with pgvector on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible edition and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

It’s important to understand strategies for how to use pgvector with your Generative AI applications so you can find the optimal configurations. This can include the selection of your database instance family, how you ingest your data, and even the version of pgvector you’re using. We ran a series of tests to see how pgvector […]

Amazon Timestream for Amazon Connect real-time monitoring

Amazon Connect is an easy-to-use cloud contact center solution that helps companies of any size deliver superior customer service at a lower cost. Connect has many real-time monitoring capabilities. For requirements that go beyond those supported out of the box, Amazon Connect also provides you with data and APIs you can use to implement your […]