Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Supports pglogical Extension

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon Aurora PostgreSQL Supports pglogical Extension Starting today, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports the pglogical extension. pglogical is an open source PostgreSQL extension that helps customers replicate data between independent Aurora PostgreSQL databases while maintaining consistent read-write access and a mix of private and common data in each database. Amazon Aurora pglogical uses…

Automating bucketing of streaming data using Amazon Athena and AWS Lambda

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAutomating bucketing of streaming data using Amazon Athena and AWS Lambda In today’s world, data plays a vital role in helping businesses understand and improve their processes and services to reduce cost. You can use several tools to gain insights from your data, such as Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics or open-source frameworks…

How to add DNS filtering to your NAT instance with Squid

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow to add DNS filtering to your NAT instance with Squid September 23, 2020: The squid configuration file in this blog post and associated YAML template have been updated. September 4, 2019: We’ve updated this blog post, initially published on January 26, 2016. Major changes include: support of Amazon Linux 2, no…

Improving security as part of accelerated data center migrations

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedImproving security as part of accelerated data center migrations Approached correctly, cloud migrations are a great opportunity to improve the security and stability of your applications. Many organizations are looking for guidance on how to meet their security requirements while moving at the speed that the cloud enables. They often try to…