Category: Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS for MySQL has long had the ability to create Read Replicas. You can do this with a couple of clicks in the AWS Management Console. Each read replica runs as a slave to the master database instance. Under certain circumstances, replication can stop. This can happen if you cause a replication error by […]

Amazon RDS for Oracle Database now supports a pair of important features to help protect your mission-critical data: Transparent Data Encryption protects data at rest. It encrypts your data before it is written to storage, and decrypts it after it is read from storage. You can choose to encrypt tablespaces or specific table columns using […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk for .NET now supports the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), seamlessly integrates with the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and can be customized using configuration files. Elastic Beanstalk allows you to easily deploy and manage .NET applications on AWS. Because Elastic Beanstalk leverages Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012, you […]

The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) takes care of the low-level drudgery associated with setting up, managing, and scaling a relational database. With support for multiple versions of MySQL, Oracle Database, and Microsoft SQL Server, RDS can be used in a wide variety of appliations. Without RDS, upgrading to a new version of your chosen […]

The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) handles all of the messy low-level aspects of setting up, managing, and scaling MySQL, Oracle Database, and SQL Server databases. You can simply create an RDS DB instance with the desired processing power and storage space and RDS will take care of the rest. The RDS Provisioned IOPS feature […]

The AWS team is always exploring ways to reduce costs and to pass the savings along to our customers. We’re more than happy to continue this tradition with our latest price reduction. Starting today, we are reducing prices for new EC2 Reserved Instances running Linux/UNIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server by […]

You can now access the log files generated by your Amazon RDS DB Instances running MySQL, Oracle Database, or SQL Server via the AWS Management Console and the Amazon RDS APIs. You can use these logs to identify, troubleshoot, and repair configuration errors and sub-optimal performance. You can view the logs as of a certain […]

When you create a Multi-AZ Database Instance using the Amazon Relational Database Service, we automatically create a standby instance which maintains an up-to-date copy of the primary database. If the primary database goes down due to a instance, storage, or network issue, Amazon RDS automatically initiates a failover from primary to secondary and also creates […]