Category: HAQM Aurora

Long-time AWS customer Zynga is making great use of HAQM Aurora and other AWS database services. In today’s guest post you can learn about how they use HAQM Aurora to accommodate spikes in their workload. This post was written by Chris Broglie of Zynga. — Jeff; Zynga has long operated various database technologies, ranging from […]

You already have the power to scale the read capacity of your HAQM Aurora instances by adding additional read replicas to an existing cluster. Today we are giving you the power to create a read replica in another region. This new feature will allow you to support cross-region disaster recovery and to scale out reads. […]

HAQM Aurora is a high-performance, MySQL-compatible database engine. Aurora combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effective of open source databases (see my post, HAQM Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for HAQM RDS, to learn more). Aurora shares some important attributes with the other database engines that […]

HAQM Aurora is a fully-managed, MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source database (read my post, HAQM Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for HAQM RDS, to learn more). Aurora allows you create up to 15 read replicas to […]

Do you currently store relational data in an on-premises Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL database? Would you like to move it to the AWS cloud with virtually no downtime so that you can take advantage of the scale, operational efficiency, and the multitude of data storage options that are available to you? If […]

Today I have a new guest post, this one written by AWS customer Safe Software. They were an early adopter of HAQM Aurora and have a great story to tell. — Jeff; Being in the business of moving data, Safe Software is always working to support leading edge database technology. This focus naturally led us […]

HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) makes it easy for you to set up, run, scale, and maintain a relational database. As is often the case with the high-level AWS model, we take care of all of the details in order to give you the time to focus on your application and your business. Enhanced […]

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