by Ivan Groenewold | Nov 24, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
A recommendation we often give to our customers is along the lines of “archive old data” to reduce your database size. There is a tradeoff between keeping all our data online and archiving part of it to cold storage. There could also be legal requirements...
by Ivan Groenewold | Aug 26, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Oftentimes, we need to replicate between Amazon Aurora and an external MySQL server. The idea is to start by taking a point-in-time copy of the dataset. Next, we can configure MySQL replication to roll it forward and keep the data up-to-date. This process is...
by Tibor Korocz | Jun 25, 2019 | Cloud, MySQL
Recently I had a case where queries against Aurora Reader were 2-3 times slower than on the Writer node. In this blog post, we are going to discuss why. I am not going to go into the details of how Aurora works, as there are other blog posts discussing that. Here I am...
by Tim Sharp | Dec 12, 2017 | Cloud, Webinars
Join Percona Technical Account Manager Tim Sharp, Percona Senior MySQL DBA for Managed Services Dov Endress, and Lookout Director of Engineering Michael Fortson as they present Best Practices When Right-Sizing Your Aurora Footprint on Thursday, December 14, 2017, at...
by Tyler Duzan | Sep 21, 2017 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Services
This blog post will give a brief overview of Amazon RDS capabilities and limitations, and how Percona Support can help you succeed in your Amazon RDS deployments. One of the common questions that we get from customers and prospective customers is about Percona Support...
by Nik Vyzas | Aug 9, 2017 | Cloud, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll look at some tips on how to configure Aurora parameters on Amazon RDS. I was recently deploying a few Aurora RDS instances, a process very similar to configuring a regular RDS instance. I noticed a few minor differences in the way you...
by Rick Golba | Nov 11, 2016 | Cloud, MySQL
This blog post discusses the differences between the Amazon AWS service tiers. Many people want to move to an Amazon environment but are unsure what AWS service makes the most sense (EC2, RDS, Aurora). For database services, the tiering at Amazon starts with EC2, then...
by Marco Tusa | May 26, 2016 | MySQL
Some time ago, I published the article on AWS Aurora Benchmarking (AWS Aurora Benchmarking – Blast or Splash?), in which I analyzed the behavior of different solutions using synchronous replication in AWS environment. This blog follows up with some of the...
by Yves Trudeau | Nov 2, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Recently, I happened to have an onsite engagement and the goal of the engagement was to move a database service to RDS Aurora. Like probably most of you, I knew the service by name but I couldn’t say much about it, so, I Googled, I listened to talks and I read...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 8, 2015 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
Whether you’re looking at the overall MySQL ecosystem or the all-data management landscape, the choice of technologies has never been larger than it is in 2015. Having so many options is great but it also can be very hard to make a selection. I’m going to...
