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Tag: database performance

Unlock cost savings using compression with Amazon DocumentDB

In the post Reduce cost and improve performance by migrating to Amazon DocumentDB 5.0, we discussed various ways to reduce costs by migrating your workload to Amazon DocumentDB. In this post, we demonstrate the document compression feature in Amazon DocumentDB to reduce storage usage and I/O cost.

Making better decisions about Amazon RDS with Amazon CloudWatch metrics

October 2023: This post was reviewed and updated for accuracy. If you are using Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), you may wonder about how to determine the best time to modify instance configurations. This may include determining configurations such as instance class, storage size, or storage type. Amazon RDS supports various database engines, including MySQL, […]