AWS News Blog
Category: Amazon RDS
Additional RDS Functionality in the AWS Management Console
We’ve added some very handy new functionality to the RDS tab of the AWS Management Console. Here’s a quick tour. First, you can create a new DB Instance from any of your existing snapshots. You can click this button: Or you can right-click on one of your snapshots: After you provide the parameters, Amazon […]
Amazon RDS: Support For SSL Connections
By popular demand, the Relational Database Service (RDS) now supports SSL encrypted connections! We now generate an SSL certificate for each DB Instance. If you need a certificate for an existing instance you’ll need to reboot it using the AWS Management Console, the RDS command-line tools, or the RDS APIs. Here are a few things […]
AWS Management Console Now Supports the Relational Database Service
The AWS Management Console now supports the Amazon Relational Database Service: You can now create, manage, and scale DB Instances with point and click ease. Let’s start by launching an instance using the Launch DB Instance Wizard. Click on the Launch DB Instance button: Fill in the first page of the wizard. Enter the desired […]
enStratus Adds Support for Amazon SNS and Amazon RDS
My friends over at Minneapolis-based enStratus Networks emailed me yesterday to give me a heads-up on their newest release of their Cloud Management Solution. They have had full support for Amazon EC2 instances, S3 storage, Elastic IP Addresses, CloudWatch, Elastic Block Storage, Auto Scaling, Simple Notification Service, and CloudFront for a while. Today’s release adds […]
Amazon RDS – Multi-AZ Deployments For Enhanced Availability & Reliability
Amazon RDS simplifies many of the common tasks associated with the deployment, operation, and scaling of a relational database. You don’t have to worry about acquiring and installing hardware, loading an operating system, installing and configuring MySQL, or managing backups. In addition, scaling the processing power or storage space available to your database is as […]
Amazon RDS Now Available on the West Coast
The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is now available in our US West (Northern California) Region. With this release, Amazon RDS is now available in the US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions so you can deploy your DB Instance(s) in whichever Region minimizes your latency or […]
Now Open: AWS Region in Asia Pacific
Businesses and developers in the Asia Pacific part of the world can now obtain their processing, storage, and other services on an economical, pay-as-you-go basis from resources located nearby. We’ve just opened up an AWS Region in Singapore, with two Availability Zones. The new region supports Amazon EC2 (including Elastic IP Addresses, Amazon CloudWatch, Elastic […]
Amazon Relational Database Service Now Available in Europe
We launched the Relational Database Service in the US less than six months ago. Since then, developers have been putting RDS through its paces.They’ve quickly become accustomed to the ease with which they can create a new DB Instance, put it to use, manage backup and recovery, and to scale data storage and processing power […]