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AWS Announces Blue/Green Deployments for MySQL on Aurora and RDS
At the beginning of the re:Invent conference, AWS announced the general availability of RDS Blue/Green Deployments, a new feature for Aurora with MySQL compatibility, RDS for MySQL, and RDS for MariaDB to perform blue/green database updates.
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Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 14
Amazon recently announced that Aurora PostgreSQL supports PostgreSQL major version 14. The new release adds performance improvements and new capabilities, including support for SCRAM password encryption.
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AWS Releases the Second Version of Amazon Aurora Serverless with Independent Scaling
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of the second version of Amazon Aurora Serverless, an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration for Amazon Aurora. The second version is generally available for both Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL, featuring the independent scaling of compute and storage.
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RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL Vulnerability Leads to AWS Deprecating Many Minor Versions
A researcher at the security company Lightspin recently explained how she obtained credentials to an internal AWS service using a PostgreSQL extension and exploiting a local file read vulnerability on RDS. AWS confirmed the issue and deprecated dozens of minor versions of Amazon Aurora and RDS for PostgreSQL.
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Amazon RDS Introduces Readable Standby Instances in Multi-AZ Deployments
AWS has recently announced readable standby instances in Amazon RDS multi-AZ deployments. The new database cluster option provides high availability and durability for workloads requiring more read capacity and consistent transaction latency.
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Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server Is Now Generally Available
Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server. The new service supports legacy, custom, and packaged applications that have dependencies on specific configurations and third-party tools and have historically been unable to move to a fully-managed database.
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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2021
After one year as a virtual-only event, re:invent was back last week to Las Vegas with fewer attendees for the 10th edition, and with multiple sessions and keynotes, including a first one for the new CEO Adam Selipsky. AWS announced new features and improvements, with a focus more on packaged solutions than new primitives.
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Amazon Aurora Supports MySQL 8.0
A few days before re:Invent 2021, AWS announced the general availability of Aurora MySQL 3 with MySQL 8.0 compatibility. The latest major MySQL version adds features such as common table expressions (CTEs), role-based authentication, invisible indexes and instant DDL previously lacking on Aurora.
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Amazon Introduces RDS Custom for Legacy and Custom Oracle Databases
Amazon recently announced RDS Custom, a managed database service for legacy and custom applications that need access to the underlying operating system and database environment. RDS Custom for Oracle is the first available service.
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AWS Announces Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 12
AWS has recently announced that Amazon Aurora, a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational Database built for the Cloud, now supports major version 12 of PostgreSQL.
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Amazon Releases Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability of the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Aurora Serverless.
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Instana Extends AI Application Monitoring to AWS Lambda
Instana, a cloud-native provider of artificial intelligence based monitoring tools for dynamic containerized microservice applications, has extended support to include AWS Lambda, a serverless computing platform and also announced availability through the AWS Marketplace.
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Amazon Aurora Adds "Backtrack" Feature to Enable Rewinding a DB Cluster to a Specific Point in Time
Amazon Aurora, a managed MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database in AWS, receives a new backtrack feature. By using this backtrack feature, developers can undo their mistakes like dropping the wrong table.
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Amazon Adds Cross Region and Encrypted Replication Support for Aurora
In a recent blog post, Amazon announced updates to its MySQL-compatible Database Engine, Aurora. In this update, Amazon is including support for cross region snapshot copy, cross region replication for encrypted databases, cross account encrypted snapshot sharing, adding a region where Aurora can be provisioned and a new instance size called T2.Small.
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SQL Server is the New Hunting Ground in the Cloud
You can now run Microsoft SQL Server on Google Cloud Platform. All the major cloud providers support SQL Server, either with an IAAS or PAAS model, but the offerings have very different feature sets. Providing an attractive option for migrating SQL Server to the cloud seems to be a new focus for Google, Amazon and Microsoft.