Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), a global leader in cloud infrastructure and database services, announced that it has improved the observability capabilities related to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) snapshot exports to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) that provide more accurate and meaningful data about the progress and completion of export tasks.
The enhanced observability capabilities include four new event types that enable real-time information on export progress, status extended, and table-level notifications regarding long-running export jobs. The customers can observe key export progress metrics such as the number of tables that have been exported successfully, the number of tables that are pending export, and the amount of data that has been transferred.
With such improvements, users can now subscribe to export notifications using Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) to receive notifications and view the event data using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface, or AWS SDKs. The observability improvement not only benefits operational transparency but also helps in speeding up troubleshooting and performance planning for data export activities.
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“With this new update, customers now have the ability to view their export job progress in greater detail. This also perfectly combines with the AWS services for monitoring and notification,” said an AWS spokesperson. “Additionally, this new feature from AWS will help organizations maximize their data pipeline operations.”
The export of database snapshots from Amazon RDS to S3 enables organisations to export database snapshot data from their databases in order to store this data in Apache Parquet format in S3 buckets, which can then be processed using various AWS services such as Amazon Athena, Glue, or Redshift Spectrum, while increased observability adds to this feature.