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On April 29, 2025, Jepsen published a report about transaction visibility behavior in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Multi-AZ clusters. We appreciate Jepsen’s thorough analysis and would like to provide additional context about this behavior, which exists both in Amazon RDS and community PostgreSQL. In this post, we dive into the specifics of the issue to provide further clarity, discuss what classes of architectures it might affect, share workarounds, and highlight our ongoing commitment to improving community PostgreSQL in all areas, including correctness.

Habby is a game studio that creates interactive entertainment to connect players worldwide. We adopted Valkey GLIDE, a client library for Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey and Redis OSS, to address our system challenges. Our system uses the Amazon ElastiCache for Redis OSS publish/subscribe (Pub/Sub) functionality for the chat message sending. However, we faced challenges with connection stability during infrastructure changes, such as instance scaling, Redis OSS version upgrades, and hardware failures. This post describes our messaging system architecture and explains how we improved system reliability by using Valkey GLIDE as the client communicating with Amazon ElastiCache.

In this post, we present a practical approach to one of the most significant challenges organizations face when adopting Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server: migrating large datasets from SQL Server on Amazon EC2 to Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server efficiently and cost-effectively. By using SQL Server’s native detach and attach method combined with EBS snapshots, you can migrate your databases without requiring Amazon S3 or AWS DMS.

When you decide to upgrade your PostgreSQL database which is configured as source or target for an ongoing AWS DMS task, it’s important to factor this into your upgrade planning. In this post, we discuss the best practices to handle the AWS DMS tasks during PostgreSQL upgrades to minor or major versions.

In this post, we discuss how the Amazon Finance Automation team used AWS purpose built databases, such as Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and Amazon Neptune together coupled with serverless compute like AWS Lambda to build an Operational Data Store (ODS) to store financial transactional data and support FinOps applications with millisecond latency. This data is the key enabler for FinOps business.

In this post, we discuss how Heroku migrated their multi-tenant PostgreSQL database fleet from self-managed PostgreSQL on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. Heroku completed this migration with no customer impact, increasing platform reliability while simultaneously reducing operational burden. We dive into Heroku and their previous self-managed architecture, the new architecture, how the migration of hundreds of thousands of databases was performed, and the enhancements to the customer experience since its completion.

In this post, we demonstrate how to use generative AI and Amazon Bedrock to transform natural language questions into graph queries to run against a knowledge graph. We explore the generation of queries written in the SPARQL query language, a well-known language for querying a graph whose data is represented as Resource Description Framework (RDF).

Amazon RDS for Oracle supports specific versions of the OEM Agent. Amazon recently released OEM Management Agent version 13.5.0.0.v2 for Amazon RDS for Oracle databases. OEM Agent version 13.5.0.0.v2 requires Oracle Management Server (OMS) version 13.5.0.23 at the minimum. In this post we explore critical scenarios affecting OEM Agents on Amazon RDS for Oracle Database instances and outline essential considerations for users.

In this post, we explore the pgstattuple extension in depth; what insights it offers, how to use it to diagnose issues in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, and best practices for harnessing its capabilities.

Monitoring databases is essential in large IT environments to prevent potential issues from becoming major problems that can result in data loss or downtime. Having custom dashboards and alarm-based monitoring for the database can help in analyzing historical metrics patterns and improve database availability by alerting users of any abnormal threshold breaches. In this post, we show you how to set up monitoring for your Oracle database using StatsD.