Purpose-built databases for all your application needs
AWS provides the broadest selection of purpose-built databases allowing you to save, grow, and innovate faster. AWS databases support diverse data models and allow you to build use case driven, highly scalable, distributed applications.
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AWS Databases: Break Free to Save, Grow, and Innovate Faster
Hundreds of thousands of customers rely on AWS databases, including Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon DocumentDB, and more.
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Migrating to Amazon Web Services' Aurora just got a lot easier
Making the switch using Babelfish -
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Take these three steps to unify and manage your data
Putting your information to work for you -
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Make the move to managed databases
And free your DBAs to focus ‘on the valuable stuff’ -
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Fit for purpose: The case for the purpose-built database
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How Amazon broke free from Oracle
'Our DBAs all became cloud architects'
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Can the cloud help solve your database licensing problems?
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Why cloud databases are taking over the world
It's a question of scale
Break free from legacy databases
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Understand the cloud database market
Customers are increasingly migrating from legacy on-premises databases to purpose-built cloud databases because of the performance, scalability, availability, and cost benefits that cloud databases provide. -
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Oracle cost traps and how to overcome them with AWS solutions
Many organizations that want the benefits of a migration to AWS are hesitant to migrate their Oracle database workloads. A variety of cost traps and risks need to be assessed and managed to ensure a cost-effective migration to AWS. -
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How Amazon.com is achieving database freedom using AWS
Migrating to AWS database services including Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB has cut Amazon's annual database operating costs by more than half, despite having provisioned higher capacity after the move. -
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Get started: break free from legacy databases course
In this free learning path, learn how to move from a legacy database to a cloud-native database from Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as Amazon Aurora or Amazon DynamoDB.
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Migrating to AWS databases
A data-driven culture is a competitive advantage and good data strategy is the foundation for transformation and innovation. If you can modernize your data infrastructure, it opens the door to advanced analytics and better machine learning.
Move to managed databases
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An introduction to cloud databases
Cloud deployments have not only changed the way companies run mission critical databases, they have transformed the roles of many administrators in production. -
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Enhanced database performance at a lower cost
AWS managed databases are designed to enable setting up, operating, and scaling databases in the cloud while lowering total cost of ownership (TCO). -
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Enabling database excellence: moving to managed services
Managing databases has long been a challenge, from over-provisioning, to configuration challenges, to security and patching errors. Managed services are changing everything. -
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Get started: move to managed databases course
In this free learning path, learn how to move from existing, self-managed, open-source, and commercial databases to fully managed AWS databases of the same engine.
Build modern applications with purpose-built databases
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Enter the purpose-built database era
In the era of the purpose-built database, developers must decide between emerging database models. Learn how to effectively use purpose-built databases to achieve your business goals faster and more efficiently. -
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Let the use case drive the database choice
Compared to traditional enterprise applications, modern applications respond to a wide range of scenarios and data types that in turn drive varying requirements for performance, scale, and reach. -
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The graph database landscape
Graph databases are a new and emerging technology that allows enterprises to generate the insights they need to solve problems quickly using highly connected datasets. -
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Get started: purpose-built databases course
In this free learning path, learn how to provision and use five different purpose-built databases in an application. With all the database options available, there's never been a better time to be a developer.
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How to choose the best disaster recovery option for Amazon Aurora
Learn about the disaster recovery options available to customers running Aurora MySQL, and evaluates the pros and cons of the most common routes. -
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Integrate your Amazon DynamoDB table with machine learning
Learn how to integrate ML with Amazon DynamoDB using Amazon Comprehend to analyze sentiments on incoming product reviews. -
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Use Amazon ElastiCache for Redis as a near-real-time feature store
Learn how incorporating ElastiCache alongside Lambda and SageMaker provides an end-to-end architecture to develop, update, and consume custom-built recommendations. -
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Building resilient applications with Amazon DocumentDB
Learn best practices for building applications when interacting with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), including client-side configurations.