Running PostgreSQL on AWS – New White Paper

You have a plethora of options when you want to run a relational or NoSQL databases on AWS.

On the relational side, you can use the Relational Database Service (RDS) to run a MySQL, Oracle, or SQL Server database. RDS will take care of the scaling, backup, maintenance, patching, and failover for you so that you can focus on your application.

On the NoSQL side, DynamoDB can scale to accommodate any amount of data and any request rate, making it ideal for applications with an unlimited potential to grow.

The AWS Marketplace also contains a very well-curated selection of relational and NoSQL databases and caches.

You also have the option to launch the database of your choice on an Amazon EC2 instance. In order to provide you with the information that you need to do this while taking advantage of all of the flexibility that AWS has to offer, we have worked with our partners to write some very detailed white papers.

The first such white paper, RDBMS in the Cloud: PostgreSQL on AWS, was released a few days ago. This 23 page document was authored by AWS Solutions Architect Miles Ward and the senior staffers at PalominoDB.

The document covers installation, use of SSD storage, and use of EBS. It also addresses the operational side with detailed information about maintenance, backup and restore, storage of backup files, replication, and monitoring. It concludes with a detailed look at security, touching on disk encryption, row-level encryption, and SSL.

Stay tuned for additional white papers in this series!

— Jeff;