Tag: Amazon Aurora

Feed: What's New. WordPress is a web publishing platform for building blogs and websites. It can be customized via a wide selection of themes, extensions, and plugins. WordPress High Availability by Bitnami installs the WordPress application on multiple servers (Amazon EC2 instances) in the AWS Cloud for high performance and availability. It also sets up an Amazon Aurora relational database to help you reduce costs, simplify configuration tasks, and scale with ease. The database and WordPress application are set up on different EC2 instances to help improve security and access control. This Quick Start is for IT infrastructure architects, administrators, ... Read More

Feed: What's New. With this update, the ip4r extension has been updated to version 2.1.1, the pgaudit extension has been updated to version 1.1.1, the pg_repack has been updated to version 1.4.3, and the plv8 extension has been updated to version 2.1.2. See the documentation for more information. To use the new versions, you can create a new Amazon Aurora database instance with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console, or upgrade an existing instance using a point-and-click upgrade. An upgrade operation involves a short period of unavailability for your database instance. Learn more about upgrading your ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Abbas Ahmed | September 13, 2018 |  Posted In: Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, AWS, MySQL, Percona Toolkit, Performance Tuning PREVIOUS POST In this blog post we shall discuss how you can analyze slow query logs from Amazon Aurora for MySQL, (referred to as Amazon Aurora in the remaining blog). The tools and techniques explained here apply to the other MySQL compatible services available under Amazon Aurora. However, we’ll focus specially on analyzing slow logs from Amazon Aurora version 2 (MySQL 5.7 compatible) using pt-query-digest. We believe there is a bug in Aurora where it logs really ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Jervin Real | September 7, 2018 |  Posted In: Amazon Aurora, AWS, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Technical Webinars PREVIOUS POST Please join Percona’s Senior Consultant, Jervin Real, as he presents Migrating to AWS Aurora: A Checklist for Success. The event will take place on Tuesday, September 11th, 2018, at 11:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 2:00 PM EDT (UTC-4). In the last few weeks, we have shown you how to successfully migrate from on-premise MySQL installations to AWS Aurora. What comes next is how to successfully ensure that your Aurora cluster performs and operates as you expect ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Phil de Valence. By Alexis Henry, Chief Technology Officer at Blu AgeMainframe monoliths have grown over the years with overwhelming complexity. They often mix different languages and data stores with various interfaces, evolving coding standards, online and batch, and millions of lines of code. With Amazon Web Services (AWS), customers use microservices for agility, elasticity, and pay-as-you-go cloud technology. In this post, we describe Blu Age solutions to peel off AWS microservices from a mainframe monolith, and how to solve data challenges associated with such a migration. Blu Age is an AWS Partner ... Read More

Feed: What's New. AWS Secrets Manager helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources. With AWS Secrets Manager, you can rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle. With today’s launch, you can use AWS Secrets Manager to rotate credentials automatically for all Amazon RDS database types -- Amazon Aurora, Maria DB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. AWS Secrets Manager is available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Wally Lu. By Wally Lu, Sr. Consultant, Infra Architect at AWSBy Ian Scofield, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSHaving to debug a system with logs scattered in different places can make troubleshooting extremely difficult. This is one of the reasons why we recommend customers deliver their AWS CloudTrail logs to a centralized Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. Although aggregating these logs is a big step forward, it still requires something to parse the logs and alert based on anomalies or high-risk API calls. This is where customers can integrate with solutions such ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Colin Charles; Colin Charles | August 17, 2018 |  Posted In: Amazon Aurora, Events and Announcements, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL PREVIOUS POST Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. Beyond the MongoDB content that will be at Percona Live Europe 2018, there is also a bit of an agenda for MongoDB Europe 2018, happening on November 8 in London—a day after Percona Live in Frankfurt. I expect you’ll see a diverse set of MongoDB content at Percona Live. The Percona Live Europe Call for Papers closes TODAY! ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Performance Insights allows non-experts to detect performance problems with an easy-to-understand dashboard that visualizes database load. It now supports all MySQL and PostgreSQL engines on Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora, with additional RDS database engines available in preview. Performance Insights offers a free tier with 7 days of data retention and a paid long-term data retention option. You can get started by logging into the Amazon RDS Management Console, enabling Performance Insights for a new or existing database instance, and viewing the Performance Insights dashboard. The Amazon Web Services API and SDK make it easy to integrate ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Aurora Replicas share the same underlying storage volume as the primary instance and are well suited for read scaling. With Aurora Auto Scaling, you can specify a desired value for predefined metrics of your Aurora Replicas, such as average CPU utilization or average active connections. You can also create a custom metric for Aurora Replicas for use with Auto Scaling. Aurora Auto Scaling adjusts the number of Aurora Replicas to keep the selected metric closest to the value you specified. For example, an increase in traffic could cause the average CPU utilization of your Aurora Replicas to ... Read More