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RDS or MySQL – Ten Use Cases

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Amazon’s Relational Database Service is based on MySQL under the hood.  So many colleagues and clients ask me – should I go with RDS or MySQL? As with every technology question, the answer is – it depends.

Here are some scenarios to help you decide.

  1. I’m replicating into Amazon from a physical datacenter

A: This setup is common if you’re using Amazon’s VPC or Virtual Private Cloud.  With a router dropped into your datacenter, VPC allows you to extend and spinup virtual instances from Amazon as if they’re sitting in your own existing datacenter.  Great stuff, but you won’t be able to replicate from your existing master MySQL instance to cloud Amazon RDS instances.  To do that, roll your own with MySQL 5.5 or Percona …

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Oracle Announces Paid MySQL Add-ons

 Oracle starts charging for MySQL Add-ons

Exciting news, Oracle just announced commercial MySQL extensions that they'll be offering paid extensions to the core MySQL free product.

To be sure, this has raised waves of concern among the community, but on the whole I suspect it will be a good thing for MySQL.  This brings more commercial addons to the table, which only increases the options for customers.  Many will continue to use the core database product only, and avoid license hassles while others will surely embark on a hybrid approach if it solves their everyday business problems.

Speaking of licensing, back in May, Amazon announced that it's RDS or Relational Database Service would now offer Oracle as an option. …

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Specialty Technology Consultant – New York Scalability Consultant – MySQL & EC2 Scalability

Amazon EC2 and cloud computing offer great promise for startups to ramp up their online presence quickly.  Navigate those challenges with an strong partner.  We bring 20 years experience to the table with each new client.

  • Scaling Web Applications
  • MySQL High Availability in Amazon EC2
  • Amazon Multi-AZ Deployments
  • Amazon RDS Deployments
  • Migrating to Amazon EC2
  • Migrating to MySQL
  • Managing Backups and Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
  • Horizontal Scalability of MySQL on EC2
  • Horizontal Scalability on Cloud Hosted Servers
  • Evaluating Cloud Providers
  • Evaluating MySQL Distributions and Platforms
  • Strong Customer Facing Skills
  • Integrate Directly with Development Team
  • Agile …
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5 Ways to Avoid EC2 Outages

1. Backup outside of the Cloud

Some of the high profile companies affected by Amazon's April 2011 outage could have recovered had they kept a backup of their entire site outside of the cloud.  With any hosting provider, managed traditional data center or cloud provider, alternate backups are always a good idea.  A MySQL logical backup and/or incremental backup can be copied regularly offsite or to an alternate cloud provider.  That's real insurance!

2. Use alternate regions and availability zones

Amazon's outage in April …

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MySQL in the Cloud

  • Deploying MySQL in the Cloud
  • Cloud Security considerations for databases
  • Deploying in multiple Availability Zones
  • Deploying in multiple regions
  • Deploying MySQL with multi-az
  • Horizontal scalability in the cloud
  • MySQL spinup scripts
  • Deploying Amazon RDS
  • Evaluating RDS
  • Evaluating MySQL in the cloud
  • EBS Performance considerations
  • Tuning MySQL parameters in the cloud
  • Backup types & options
  • Mitigating against cloud server failure
  • Vertical scalability & MySQL on EC2

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  • Backup & recovery
  • MySQL master master replication
  • MySQL replication & horizontal scaling …
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3 Ways to Boost Cloud Scalability

Deploying in the Amazon cloud is touted as a great way to achieve high scalability while paying only for the computing power you use. How do you get the best scalability from the technology?

1. Use Auto-scaling

Auto-scaling is a unique feature of cloud computing and Amazon's EC2 offering. Setup a load balancer and a couple of webservers for your application as you normally would. Design your webserver based on a template AMI that you'll reuse over and over. Then setup auto-scaling and set thresholds based on the traffic you forecast. When a threshold is passed, AWS will spinup a new instance of your webserver, and roll it into the load balancer pool automatically. Once traffic falls below the scale back threshold, Amazon will take a server out of the pool for you.

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