One of the most common questions I get as a Technical Account Manager (TAM) from clients considering a migration from their current on-premise data center to AWS is “what are the biggest differences I will need to address?” In an earlier post MySQL to the Cloud! Thoughts on Migrating Away from On-Premise I discussed […]
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Being that Amazon is one of the most-used cloud vendors, it is only natural that one may ask “How can Kubernetes be used in AWS?“. And the answer is – not that different than with other cloud vendors. What one needs is two things (and this applies universally): a Kubernetes cluster + the Percona […]
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Recently I noticed the site Jan 2019 results download link) are a subset of the mongo javascript shell five dbaas_*.yml test suites used are sensible-for-DBAAS subsets of the same aggregation, decimal, and competition-comparison page at mongodb.com.
But the scripts are not 1-to-1 tests of features. There are more than twice as many test scripts as […]
When we think about the cloud, often we consider many of the benefits: scalability, elasticity, agility, and flexible pricing. As great as these features are, security also remains a business-critical concern. In an on-premise environment, every aspect of security is owned by you. Looking at the database layer specifically, these include (but are not […]
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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
