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Tag: RDS MySQL

Migrating a SQL Server Database to a MySQL-Compatible Database Engine

This post provides an overview of how you can migrate your Microsoft SQL Server database to a MySQL-compatible database engine such as HAQM RDS for MySQL, HAQM RDS for MariaDB, or HAQM Aurora MySQL. The following are the two main parts of a database migration: Schema conversion: Converting the schema objects is usually the most […]

Implementing DB Instance Stop and Start in HAQM RDS

This post is from Matt Merriel at AWS partner Kloud, and Marc Teichtahl, manager for AWS Partner Solutions Architecture Australia and New Zealand. Kloud uses the new stop and start capabilities in HAQM RDS to lower costs for customers who don’t require 24×7 access to their databases during the testing and development phases of their […]

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 […]

Streaming Changes in a Database with HAQM Kinesis

Emmanuel Espina is a software development engineer at HAQM Web Services. In this blog post, I will discuss how to integrate a central relational database with other systems by streaming its modifications through HAQM Kinesis. The following diagram shows a common architectural design in distributed systems. It includes a central storage referred to as a […]

Scaling Your HAQM RDS Instance Vertically and Horizontally

This post was reviewed and updated May,2022. As a managed service, HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) takes care scaling your relational database so your database can keep up with the increasing demands of your applications. In this post, we look into how we can vertically and horizontally scale your RDS instance. Vertical scaling refers […]