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Starting today, you can use AI agents to orchestrate entire AWS DMS Schema Conversion (DMS SC) workflows through natural language. An AI agent manages the full lifecycle, including creating migration projects, browsing source metadata, converting schemas, generating assessment reports, and exporting results, all from a conversational prompt.
This post is the second in a two-part series on reducing replication lag for Amazon RDS for Oracle Read Replicas. In Part 1, we discussed redo compression and configuration options to optimize replica lag. In this post, we show you how to monitor replica lag using Amazon CloudWatch metrics and database views, identify common root causes through wait event analysis, and how to troubleshoot and resolve performance issues.
In part 1 (this post), we show you how to optimize lag for RDS for Oracle replicas using the redo compression feature. In part 2, we discuss various techniques to monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve replication lag for RDS for Oracle replicas.
In this post, you learn how to set up CDC-only reverse replication from Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 back to your on-premises AIX Db2 instance using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS).
In this post, we demonstrate how to use the PostgreSQL 18 logical replication improvements on RDS for PostgreSQL: replicating STORED generated columns with the publish_generated_columns parameter, monitoring conflicts through the new counters in pg_stat_subscription_stats, verifying that parallel streaming is enabled by default, toggling two-phase commit on a running subscription, and configuring idle_replication_slot_timeout for automatic slot cleanup. These features are available on RDS for PostgreSQL 18.0 and later and Aurora PostgreSQL.
In this post, we show you how to deploy an automated pipeline that extracts PostgreSQL audit logs from CloudWatch Logs, converts them into structured comma-separated values (CSV) format, and stores them in Amazon S3 for long-term analysis. The solution processes log entries in near real time after generation.
