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A practical, step-by-step guide to getting Oracle Database@AWS up and running. It covers the five procurement and onboarding steps, from securing your AWS Marketplace offer through validating prerequisites, linking your OCI tenancy, and configuring IAM, so you can move from purchase to a provisioning-ready environment.

Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now extends to self-managed databases. Monitor self-managed PostgreSQL on Amazon EC2 alongside your Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS fleet from a single console, with the same DB Load, Top SQL, and wait event analysis you use for managed databases.

Circular role dependencies can stall or roll back a major version upgrade of Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL when you move from PostgreSQL 14 or earlier to 15 or later. Learn why this happens, how to detect it with a single pre-upgrade query, and how to clear it before you upgrade.

Learn how to integrate a Spring Boot application with Amazon ElastiCache using Spring Data Valkey for caching. This walkthrough covers adding caching to a serverless cache, plus the advantages of Spring Data Valkey over Spring Data Redis: native AWS IAM authentication, Availability Zone affinity, and OpenTelemetry observability.

Amazon Aurora DSQL offers time-based observability through Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights. Learn how the DSQL observability model, DASH, Database Insights, PromQL, and the system diagnostics AI skill help you find performance bottlenecks and connect session time directly to cost.

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure (ExaDB-XS) for Oracle Database@AWS. ExaDB-XS brings Exadata-class performance and availability through a consumption-based model, so you can scale compute and storage independently and pay only for what you use.

Recover from accidental changes to your Amazon DynamoDB tables without a full table restore. This post shows how to use the Bulk Executor revert-export command with an incremental export to Amazon S3 to undo unwanted writes, target only a subset of changes with a transform, or fix specific items along the way.

Learn how to set up the Amazon Aurora DSQL MCP server and use it from your AI coding assistant to run queries, evolve schemas, and check Aurora DSQL compatibility without leaving your IDE. This post walks through installation, the available MCP tools, practical integration patterns, and the security model.

Amazon Keyspaces supports two approaches for modeling complex data: user-defined types (UDTs) and Protocol Buffers. This post shows how to create and manage UDTs, implement Protobuf serialization, and choose between the two based on your application needs.

With the release of multi-node scaling for Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3 Enterprise, clusters can now support up to 15 nodes with distinct roles. You can separate ingestion, querying, and compaction to match your workload’s demands. In this post, we cover when to scale vertically versus horizontally, and how to make the right choice for both stability and cost.