AWS Database Blog
Author: Marie Yap
Marie Yap is a Principal Solutions Architect for Amazon Web Services based in Hawaii. In this role, she helps various organizations begin their journey to the cloud. She also specializes in analytics and modern data architectures.
How to Migrate from MySQL to Amazon Aurora using AWS SCT and AWS DMS
MySQL is a great open-source database engine, which a lot of companies use because it’s cost-effective. However, like any other open-source database, it takes a lot of work to get commercial-grade performance out of it. As the size of your database increases, the complexity of scaling and crash recovery in MySQL also increases. Scaling out […]
Replicating Amazon EC2 or On-Premises SQL Server to Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Amazon RDS for SQL Server is a managed Microsoft SQL Server database service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale SQL Server deployments in the cloud. Amazon RDS takes away the time-consuming database administration activities so that you can focus on your schema design, query construction, query optimization, and building your application. […]
Scaling Your Amazon RDS Instance Vertically and Horizontally
This post was reviewed and updated May,2022. As a managed service, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) takes care scaling your relational database so your database can keep up with the increasing demands of your applications. In this post, we look into how we can vertically and horizontally scale your RDS instance. Vertical scaling refers […]