AWS Database Blog

How CRED uses Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments at scale

In this post, you will learn how CRED built an automated orchestration framework around Amazon RDS blue/green deployments. The framework performs engine upgrades, instance scaling, storage optimization, and Change Data Capture (CDC) pipeline migration across their entire fleet. This approach achieved zero data loss incidents and zero production incidents.

Cross-account and cross-Region monitoring for Amazon RDS and Aurora with Database Insights

This post shows you how to set up centralized cross-account and cross-Region monitoring for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora databases using Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights. Whether your databases are spread across two AWS accounts or ten, and across one Region or several, this walkthrough gives you a single monitoring account with visibility across your entire database fleet.

Amazon RDS log analysis: natural language queries with Kiro and MCP

Amazon RDS log analysis: natural language queries with Kiro and MCP

In this post, we demonstrate an approach to review RDS logs using Kiro, an AI-powered conversational assistant combined with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server from awslabs.cloudwatch-mcp-server. This solution transforms log analysis from a technical, query-based process into a natural language conversation, delivering actionable insights instantly.

Manage long-running transactions for AWS DMS performance

In this post, we show you how long-running transactions affect AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) change data capture (CDC) latency, walk through monitoring approaches for Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server, and provide ready-to-use scripts to identify and resolve problematic transactions before they impact your replication performance.

User authentication and session management with Amazon Aurora DSQL

In this post, you learn how to design and implement a user authentication service with session management on Amazon Aurora DSQL. You see the full request flow from client to database and back, explore the design considerations specific to Amazon Aurora DSQL, and discover practical lessons from building and testing against a live cluster.

Announcing Valkey 9.1 for Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.1, bringing the latest community-driven innovations from the Valkey open source project to customers running latency-sensitive, high-throughput, and operationally demanding in-memory workloads on ElastiCache. In this post, we discuss how Valkey 9.1 helps you get more throughput and memory efficiency from demanding workloads while providing stronger isolation for multi-tenant and shared-cluster deployments. We also cover new commands that simplify common application and operational workflows, new observability features that give operators better visibility into engine behavior, and how ElastiCache continues to deliver the latest Valkey open source innovations in a fully managed service.

Building Financial Hierarchies with Amazon Neptune for Treasury Operations

Building Financial Hierarchies with Amazon Neptune for Treasury Operations

In this post, we show how Amazon’s Finance Technology (FinTech) team uses Amazon Neptune to model complex corporate treasury structures as a property graph. These structures include the legal entity relationships, intercompany agreements, and bank account associations that govern payment routing and cash management.

How Securonix reduced cache costs by 20% with Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey

In this post, we share how Securonix migrated hundreds of Amazon ElastiCache clusters from Redis OSS to Valkey, achieving a 20% reduction in caching costs. This amounts to over $100,000 in annualized savings. The migration also improved CPU utilization and overall throughput across Securonix’s global SIEM platform, which processes hundreds of terabyte data volumes daily for enterprise security teams worldwide.