Category: Database

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 […]

You can now elect to receive notifications via the Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) for a wide variety of events associated with each of your Relational Database Service (RDS) instances. Why Notify? If you are a database administrator (DBA), you can now use these “push” notifications to arrange for notification when your RDS DB Instances […]

You can now change the name and endpoint of an existing Amazon RDS database Instance via the AWS Management Console, the Amazon RDS API, or the Amazon RDS Command Line toolkit. This feature is available in all AWS regions and for all of the database engines supported by Amazon RDS. There are two main uses […]

We launched an AWS Region in Brazil almost a year ago, along with Portuguese and Spanish versions of the AWS Blog. Today we are adding the following new AWS functionality in the Region: AWS Elastic Beanstalk – You can now deploy and manage .NET, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Java applications in the AWS Cloud using […]

For this episode of The AWS Report, I interviewed John Smiley, Principal Database Engineer on the Amazon RDS team, to learn more about the new Provisioned IOPS feature for RDS: We discussed use cases and scalability, and the fact that you can add additional IOPS to a running database while it is running if your […]

It is time to expand the AWS footprint once again, with a new Region in Sydney, Australia. AWS customers in Australia can now enjoy fast, low-latency access to the suite of AWS infrastructure services. New Region The new Sydney Region supports the following AWS services: A Tranquil Beach – Shoal Bay, Australia Amazon Elastic Compute […]

I’ve got good news for users of the Amazon Relational Database Service and ElastiCache. We’re reducing prices and adding more instance types. RDS Price ReductionWe’ve reduced prices on RDS Database Instances by 8% to 14% in the US East (Northern Virginia) and US West (Oregon) Regions. Here are sample prices for standard deployment (single Availability […]

The Amazon RDS team has been cranking out feature releases at an incredibly rapid pace. I’m working double secret overtime just to keep up with them. Here’s what they’ve released in the past month (Click on the image to learn more about RDS): 9/13: SQL Server VPC support 9/13: Oracle Data Pump support 9/25: Provisioned […]