AWS Database Blog

Category: SaaS

Improve cost visibility of an HAQM RDS multi-tenant instance with Performance Insights and HAQM Athena

In this post we introduce a solution that addresses a common challenge faced by many customers: managing costs in multi-tenant applications, particularly for shared databases in HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) and HAQM Aurora. This solution uses HAQM RDS Performance Insights and AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) to addresses this challenge. This allows for efficient grouping of tenants within the same RDS or Aurora instances, while helping you implement accurate chargeback models, optimize resource-intensive workloads, and make data-driven decisions for capacity planning.

Scale your relational database for SaaS, Part 2: Sharding and routing

This post is a continuation of our series on scaling your relational database for software as a service (SaaS). SaaS providers commonly use relational databases, such as HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) and HAQM Aurora, in their solutions. In Part 1, we looked at some common ways to scale or optimize your relational database […]

Scale your relational database for SaaS, Part 1: Common scaling patterns

One of the challenges that software as a service (SaaS) providers face as their business grows is how to maintain their tenants’ experience. This includes ensuring acceptable performance and response times as the tenant base grows. Relational databases, such as HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) and HAQM Aurora, are commonly used by SaaS providers. […]