Category: Amazon RDS

You can now purchase Relational Database Service Reserved DB Instances using the AWS Management Console. Reserved DB Instances allow you to reduce your costs if you plan to run your database for all or most of a one or three year term. Here’s a tour. There’s a new item Reserved DB Instance item in the […]

The first AWS Office Hours session focused on Amazon EC2. Although I was scheduled to host the event, a sudden need for dental surgery made room for Jinesh Varia and Steve Riley to step in! Here’s a screen shot from the event (click on it to watch a replay): From all accounts the event went […]

We’ve made some important updates to the AWS SDK for Java the AWS SDK for PHP, and the AWS SDK for .NET. The newest versions of the respective SDKs are available now. AWS SDK for Java The AWS SDK for Java now supports the new Amazon S3 Multipart Upload feature in two different ways. First, […]

We introduced the DB Engine Version Management feature earlier this year to give you control over the version of MySQL running in each of your DB Instances. You can now access this feature from the AWS Management Console. You can create a new DB Instance using any supported version of MySQL: You can also upgrade […]

It is always fun to write about price reductions. I enjoy knowing that our customers will find AWS to be an even better value over time as we work on their behalf to lower our own costs and pass the savings along. Effective October 1, 2010 we are reducing the On-Demand and Reserved pricing for […]

It is possible to characterize the workload handled by a relational database in terms of the ratio of reads to writes. Some applications seem to use about the same number of reads and writes. Others write a little bit of data and read a lot. This read-heavy behavior is frequently seen in web applications. Different […]

I can’t even leave my neighborhood without getting feature requests! My neighbor Rick was walking his dog past my house and stopped to ask me when we were going to support Reserved Instances for Amazon RDS. Such is life in the Pacific Northwest part of the US. Hey Rick, we’ve got your RDS Reserved Instances […]

I’ve got a pair of related news items for users of the Amazon Relational Database System (RDS): We now support version 5.1.49 of MySQL, with the InnoDB Plugin as the InnoDB storage engine. We now provide a new, optional level of control over when and if your DB Instance(s) are upgraded to new MySQL versions […]