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Physical migration of Oracle databases to Amazon RDS Custom using Data Guard

In the first post of this series, we showed you how to perform a physical migration of an Oracle database into Amazon RDS Custom using the RMAN duplicate tool. In this post, we walk through the steps to migrate Oracle databases into Amazon RDS Custom using Oracle Data Guard with minimum downtime. Solution overview We […]

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Physical migration of Oracle databases to Amazon RDS Custom using RMAN duplication

Organizations are moving their self-managed Oracle databases to AWS managed database services to modernize their applications and gain access to cloud services. With Amazon RDS Custom, you now have the privileges needed to perform a physical migration of your Oracle database into Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). In this post, we describe the key […]

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Optimize Redis Client Performance for Amazon ElastiCache and MemoryDB

Redis users typically access a Redis service, such as Amazon ElastiCache or Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, using their choice of language-specific open source client libraries. These libraries are built and maintained by independent teams, with contributions from others including AWS. In this post, we share best practices for optimizing Redis client performance for popular Redis […]

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Archive data from Amazon DynamoDB to Amazon S3 using TTL and Amazon Kinesis integration

In this post, we share how you can use Amazon Kinesis integration and the Amazon DynamoDB Time to Live (TTL) feature to design data archiving. Archiving old data helps reduce costs and meet regulatory requirements governing data retention or deletion policies. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for DynamoDB captures item-level modifications in a DynamoDB table and […]

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Profile Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL code using plprofiler

PostgreSQL is considered to be the primary open-source database choice when migrating from commercial databases such as Oracle. AWS provides two managed PostgreSQL options: Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. Identifying slow queries and tuning for better performance is an important task for developers and database administrators managing […]

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Restore Amazon RDS for Oracle to a self-managed infrastructure using RMAN duplication

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle is a fully managed commercial database that makes it easy to set up, operate, scale a relational database in the cloud. It takes care of installation, storage provisioning, management, OS and database patching, backup and restore automatically. This helps you focus your efforts on where you can […]

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Restore an Amazon RDS for Oracle instance to a self-managed instance

Fully managed database services often bring lots of benefits to customers for running their database workload in the cloud, such as easy administration and high scalability, availability, and durability. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle is a fully managed commercial database that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale Oracle database […]

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Develop a full stack serverless NFT application with Amazon Managed Blockchain – Part 2

This post builds upon the full-stack non-fungible token (NFT) development environment setup outlined in a previous post, which is considered a prerequisite to the topics we discuss in this post. Part 1 discussed how to set up a development environment; in this post we walk you through a complete NFT marketplace application using Amazon Managed […]

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Measuring database performance of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis

Contributed by Jean Guyader, Sr. Software Engineering Manager and Kevin McGehee, Principal Software Engineer. Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is a Redis-compatible, durable, in-memory database service that delivers ultra-fast performance. It’s compatible with Redis, a popular open-source data store, which enables you to quickly build applications using the same flexible and friendly Redis data structures, APIs, […]

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Store off-chain data using Amazon Managed Blockchain and Amazon S3: Part 1

Blockchain allows organizations to build applications where multiple parties can securely and transparently run transactions and share data without needing a trusted, central authority. Each member of the network has a copy of this transactional data. This is called on-chain data. Organizations often also want to store additional data along with the transactional data. For […]

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