AWS re:Invent 2022 Executive Summary of Database Announcements

AWS re:Invent is always an exciting time of year for cloud database announcements, and 2022 delivered. If you didn’t have the opportunity to go to Vegas or you were deep in your 2023 IT planning process at the time, here’s a summary of what re:Invent 2022 had to offer to the database world.

Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora Announcements

• AWS is offering deep integration between Amazon Aurora and Amazon Redshift through zero-ETL integration. This functionality is intended to enable near real-time analytics and machine learning on up to petabytes of data contained in Aurora. This feature is in limited preview and currently only supports Amazon Aurora MySQL 3 with MySQL 8.0 compatibility.
• You can now install certain PostgreSQL extensions on Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, thanks to Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL.
• Improve your database update process with Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora MySQL Blue/Green Deployments.
• Boost Amazon RDS for MySQL performance with Amazon RDS Optimized Reads and Amazon RDS Optimized Writes.
• Amazon RDS gets Torn Write Prevention, enabling you to turn off double write operations on MySQL and MariaDB databases.

Amazon DocumentDB Announcements

• Amazon DocumentDB Elastic Clusters is generally available. This capability allows you to use the MongoDB Sharding API in creating this new DocumentDB cluster option.

AWS Database Migration Service Announcements

• AWS has brought the Schema Conversion Tool directly into AWS Database Migration Service (DMS). DMS Schema Conversion is generally available and fully managed as part of DMS.

 
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