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Implement corruption protection mechanisms in Amazon RDS for Oracle
In this post, we discuss some recommended solutions and practices you should adopt in order to protect your databases hosted on Amazon RDS for Oracle from database block corruption.
Exploring Amazon DynamoDB SDK clients
When working with Amazon DynamoDB, developers have the option to choose between a low-level client and a high-level client in most of the AWS SDKs offered. Understanding the differences between these client types is crucial for effectively interacting with DynamoDB. In this post, we explore the characteristics, use cases, and benefits of both low-level and […]
How Amazon Finance Technologies built an event-driven and scalable remittance service using Amazon DynamoDB
The Amazon Finance Technologies (FinTech) payment transmission team manages products for the Accounts Payable (AP) team, from invoices to the pay process. Their suite of services handles the disbursement process, from invoice generation to payment creation, to make sure that payment beneficiaries receive their payments. Amazon Business makes payments to a very diverse range of […]
Introducing – Aurora Global Database Failover
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud. Aurora combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. Aurora Global Database lets you span your relational database across multiple Regions. Global Database is an ideal choice for use cases when you want […]
IPFS on AWS, Part 3: Store NFT data on IPFS
This series of posts provides a comprehensive introduction to running IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) on AWS: In Part 1, we introduce the IPFS concepts and test IPFS features on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance In Part 2, we propose a reference architecture and build an IPFS cluster on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service […]
Introducing customer-defined partition keys for Amazon Timestream: Optimizing query performance
Amazon Timestream is a fully managed, scalable, and secure time series database designed for workloads such as infrastructure observability, user behavioral analytics, and Internet of Things (IoT) workloads. It’s built to handle trillions of events per day, and designed to scale horizontally to meet your needs. With features like multi-measure records and scheduled queries, Timestream […]
Build a digital asset tokenization framework for financial services use cases using Amazon Managed Blockchain – Part 1
This is the first post in a series of posts covering digital asset tokenization in financial services, a topic which is seeing tremendous interest in the sector. The series aims to be a guide for financial services customers looking to learn more about the topic, and who may be considering building a digital asset capability for their […]
Migrate Microsoft SQL Server SSIS Packages to Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) provides a platform for users to create, extract, transform, and load workflows by connecting to various data sources like relational database management services, flat files, XML files, and more. Before loading into the destination system, users can copy, cleanse, and process the data. SSIS allows developers to create extract, […]
Exploring the feature packed 1.2.1.0 release for Amazon Neptune
In this post, we describe all the features that have been released as part of the recent 1.2.1.0 engine update to Amazon Neptune. Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database service for building and running applications with highly connected datasets, such as knowledge graphs, fraud graphs, identity graphs, and security graphs. […]
Estimate cost savings for the Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized feature using Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Aurora is a relational database service that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. Aurora supports MySQL and PostgreSQL open-source database engines. Aurora storage consists of a shared cluster storage architecture that makes it highly available, durable, scalable, and performant by design. As of […]









