News — 2026-06-17

• Deep dive into Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL lock analysis with CloudWatch Database Insights
  AWS Database Blog · by Kanhaiya Lal
• Converting an RDS for SQL Server instance from license included to Bring Your Own Media (BYOM)
  AWS Database Blog · by Mesgana Gormley
• Similarweb’s migration from HBase to Amazon DynamoDB
  AWS Database Blog · by Idan Lahav
• Improve query performance with EXPLAIN plans in Amazon Aurora DSQL
  AWS Database Blog · by Prema Iyer
• Christmas Outage to #1 App Store Ranking: An Aura Frames Postgres Scaling Retro
  HackerNews · 5 points · by andatki · HN discussion
• Property Graph Support in PostgreSQL 19
  HackerNews · 4 points · by tharakam · HN discussion
• Show HN: Hosted version of Mathesar, intuitive open source UI built on Postgres
  HackerNews · 3 points · by kgodey · HN discussion
• Fixing Claude's memory with a Postgres database
  HackerNews · 2 points · by dstala · HN discussion
• Show HN: Next.js boilerplate with Better Auth, PostgreSQL and Shadcn/UI
  HackerNews · 1 points · by mmilanovic4 · HN discussion