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Scaling Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), Part 1: Scaling reads

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. With Amazon DocumentDB, you can run the same application code and use the same drivers and tools you use with MongoDB. This post shows you how the modern, cloud-native database architecture of Amazon DocumentDB allows […]

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 […]