Tag: Amazon Relational Database Service

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL now supports AWS Graviton2-based (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/) database instances in the additional regions of US West (N. California), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (London). Graviton2 instances provide up to 35% performance improvement and up to 52% price/performance improvement over comparable current generation x86-based instances for RDS open source databases depending on database engine, version, and workload. If your instance is using a major version that supports Graviton2, such as RDS for MySQL 8.0.20, you can move to Graviton2 by modifying the instance type to R6g or M6g using the ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Data API is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Canada (Central) regions. RDS Data API provides an HTTPS API endpoint for your applications to issue SQL commands to your Aurora Serverless v1 database and minimizes the overhead of driver integration and connection management in your application. Data API also uses credentials stored in AWS Secrets manager to authenticate with your database, eliminating the need to store credentials in your applications. To learn more about RDS Data API read the documentation. Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration for Amazon Aurora, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. RegCloud: ControllerView® on AWS is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from AxiomSL, an AWS Financial Services Competency Partner. RegCloud offers a set of cloud-native technical and operational capabilities that enable financial institutions to harness the power of the cloud for their risk and regulatory data management and reporting initiatives. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that follows a phased approach including design, initial system setup, data provisioning, implementation, testing and production. RegCloud ingests native data from disparate sources and transparently delivers workflow automation and controls, performs validation ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Narasimhan Balasubramanian. By Narasimhan Balasubramanian, Chief Architect, AWS Practice – Cognizant Organizations hosting workloads on the cloud are more flexible and scalable, something made possible by different service-level agreement (SLA) options. However, these come with varying costs, and the onus is on organizations to choose the appropriate service and cost. For those adopting cloud, financial governance and cloud economics have taken center stage. It’s imperative that companies adopt an appropriate governance policy to validate and monitor their cloud spend. Cloud cost management, or cloud optimization, is the organizational strategy that enables effective monitoring ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Oliver Fletcher. By Oliver Fletcher, Cloud Architect, Elastic Engineering – Onica, a Rackspace Technology Company As organizations move to Amazon Web Services (AWS), ensuring you have an effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy in place to manage outages is paramount. There are a number of strategies you can adopt to meet requirements to ensure business continuity. However, organizations should understand what their Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) should be for workloads so they can select a DR strategy that’s best suited for their AWS workloads. Through defining a common understanding ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Emma White. This post is written by Benjamin Gardiner, Partner Solutions Architect. Amazon Lightsail is a great way to get familiar with AWS. Lightsail simplifies the deployment of instances, databases, load balancers, CDNs, and now also containers. In this post I demonstrate how easy it is to launch a WordPress website using Lightsail containers and a Lightsail database. I’ll only use the Lightsail console, so no coding is required to follow along. Product overview Containers offer several advantages over virtual machines. For example, containers require less system resources than virtual machines and are lightweight, which ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Following the announcement of updates in MySQL database versions 5.6 , 5.7, and 8.0, we have updated Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL to support MySQL minor versions 5.6.51, 5.7.33, and 8.0.23. We recommend that customers upgrade to any of the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Learn more about upgrading your database instances in the Amazon RDS User Guide, including automatic minor version upgrades ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Vicente Herrera. By Vicente Herrera, Product Manager at Sysdig Implementing effective threat detection for applications in the cloud requires visibility into all aspects of your infrastructure and workloads. Your application stack is composed of a number of elements: hosts, virtual machines, containers, clusters, stored information, and input/output data streams. When you add configuration and user management to the mix, it’s clear there is a lot to secure. As you move applications to the cloud, you can expect to increase development speed, performance, scalability, and availability. You’ll also gain access to new kinds of ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. LeasePlan is one of the world’s leading car leasing companies, with 1.9 million vehicles in more than 30 countries. They manage the entire lifecycle of their fleet, from purchase and maintenance to the sale of returned lease cars. Sitecore is a leading content management system in the enterprise market. It allows organizations to combine content authoring capabilities for enterprise-ready websites with marketing automation tools to develop and deliver a personalized web user experience. Sitecore is critical to the LeasePlan ecosystem because it provides content for most of their websites. To serve LeasePlan’s millions of visitors per ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. In the last blog, Preparing your Applications for Hypergrowth, we talked about hypergrowth and the technical challenges it presents to companies. As a reminder, we presented an example ecommerce company running a monolithic application on Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This application connects with Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). The company recently experienced a hypergrowth event where user traffic grew exponentially (10 times) within a few days. During this event, we observed degraded performance at peak times. In this blog, we talk about improving performance by maximizing system throughput through incremental improvements to application and ... Read More