AWS Database Blog
Author: Phil Intihar
Best practices for using a MySQL read replica to upgrade an HAQM RDS for MySQL database
December, 2022: HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) now supports HAQM RDS Blue/Green Deployments to help you with safer, simpler, and faster updates to your HAQM Aurora and HAQM RDS databases. Blue/Green Deployments create a fully managed staging environment that allows you to deploy and test production changes, keeping your current production database safe. Learn […]
How to use IAM multifactor authentication with HAQM RDS
A common request that we get from customers is how to protect their resources from an accidental or malicious deletion, such as instances, snapshots, clusters, and so on. Doing this is especially important when you are using a common AWS account for multiple users or teams. Although you want the flexibility to innovate within the […]
Understanding Burst vs. Baseline Performance with HAQM RDS and GP2
When we think about database storage, the dimensions that matter are the size, latency, throughput, and IOPS of the volume. IOPS stands for input/output (operations) per second, and latency is a measure of the time it takes for a single I/O request to complete. As you can imagine, latency and IOPS are closely related and […]