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Yassin Abouel Seoud

Author: Yassin Abouel Seoud

Yassin Abouel Seoud is an Enterprise Support Lead at AWS. He works with users on improving their workloads’ performance and resiliency, and resolving blockers. Prior to AWS, Yassin completed his Bachelors of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering at McGill University, and worked on expanding Alexa’s understanding and answering internationally.

Automatically scale Amazon RDS storage using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Lambda

Customer databases are constantly growing. When you increase storage for a database in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), you can’t make further storage modifications for either 6 hours or until storage optimization has completed on the instance, whichever is longer. Amazon RDS storage autoscaling increases storage by 10 GiB, 10% of currently allocated storage, […]