Tag: DBA

HAQM Web Services (AWS) offers HAQM Relational Database Service (RDS) and HAQM Aurora as fully managed relational database services. With a few commands, you can have your production database instance up and running on AWS. An online database frees the database administrator (DBA) from many maintenance and management tasks. However, there are a few significant […]

In Part 1 of this blog series, I talked about how HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) can help change the focus of your role as a database administrator (DBA) from routine, time-consuming tasks to project work that helps the business move faster. In this post, I discuss how you can push that advantage one step further and use AWS tools to do more through automation. An important aspect of being an effective DBA when your business is running at top speed is using code and automation whenever you can. AWS provides tools for you to make this easier.

This blog post is the first in a two-part series. In this first post, we discuss how moving to HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) can change your role as a traditional DBA and bring more value to you, the business, key projects, and end users. In the next post, we will discuss how to use other AWS products to automate any remaining regular tasks in HAQM RDS.