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April 2, 2020
Top Considerations When Moving from On-Premise to AWS (Part Two)
As discussed in part one, this series is meant to go over some of the biggest differences you will likely [...]
March 31, 2020
Top Considerations When Moving from On-Premise to AWS (Part One)
One of the most common questions I get as a Technical Account Manager (TAM) from clients considering a migration from [...]
March 30, 2020
Which Cloud Provider Performs Better for My Mysql Workload?
More and more people are nowadays thinking of cloud migration. The question of “Which cloud provider performs better for my [...]
March 24, 2020
The Changing Face of Enterprise DBAs in Cloud-Driven Environments
Over the past ten years, those in charge of running enterprise databases saw their focus shift from simply ensuring access [...]
March 19, 2020
Help Drive the Future of Percona XtraDB Cluster
Percona is happy to announce the experimental release of Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0. This is a major step for tuning [...]
February 26, 2020
Benefit from Ongoing Innovation with Google Cloud
While Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure continue to lead the pack, Google Cloud Platform is firmly positioned as [...]
February 25, 2020
Embrace the Cloud with Microsoft Azure
The race to the cloud continues gaining pace, and many businesses have already enthusiastically embraced the new opportunities and efficiencies [...]
February 11, 2020
Percona Monitoring and Management 2 Now Available on AWS Marketplace
We recently released Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) version 2.2 and as part of this release, we made it available [...]
February 7, 2020
How to Measure MySQL Performance in Kubernetes with Sysbench
As our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster gains in popularity, I am getting questions about its performance and [...]
January 21, 2020
Deploying the Percona Kubernetes Operator for XtraDB Cluster in Amazon (AWS)
Being that Amazon is one of the most-used cloud vendors, it is only natural that one may ask “How can [...]
January 20, 2020
Considering a Fully Managed DBaaS Offering For Your Business?
Our Solutions Engineers spend a significant amount of time talking to customers who are deployed in a DBaaS environment, or [...]
January 15, 2020
Setup and Deploy Vitess on Kubernetes (Minikube) for MySQL – Part III of III
In this blog post, we will continue to explore Vitess and test an example database provided in its repository. This [...]
January 14, 2020
Setup and Deploy Vitess on Kubernetes (Minikube) for MySQL – Part II of III
In this blog post, I’d like to share some experiences in setting up a Vitess environment for local tests and [...]
January 14, 2020
Amazon RDS MySQL Minor Upgrades: Not So Fast!
The promise of DBaaS like RDS is to reduce operational overhead (among other things) and one of the stellar cases [...]
January 13, 2020
Introduction to Vitess on Kubernetes for MySQL – Part I of III
In this blog post series, we will discuss an overview of Vitess technology. Vitess is a database clustering solution for [...]
January 3, 2020
PMM 2.2 Released with Full Support for Amazon RDS and Aurora
Percona Monitoring and Management 2.2 (PMM) was released on December 24th with new features and updates designed to help you [...]
December 23, 2019
Shared Responsibility Model in the Cloud – Part 2
In an earlier post, I discussed the Shared Responsibility Model in the cloud and how it relates to databases. With [...]
December 19, 2019
The Benefits of Amazon RDS for MySQL
As the world’s most popular open-source database, MySQL has been around the block more than a few times. Traditionally installed [...]
December 18, 2019
The Shared Responsibility Model of Security in the Cloud
When we think about the cloud, often we consider many of the benefits: scalability, elasticity, agility, and flexible pricing. As [...]
December 17, 2019
2019 Database Year in Review: The Revenge of the Cloud
The year is almost over and it’s time to recap the biggest stories in our industry over the past twelve [...]