Amazon Web Services is a technology giant, especially when it comes to pioneering itself in top-of-the-line cloud computing services. Its fully managed services products (Amazon RDS) is one of a kind. But then again, while...

Your organization is in a place where you are considering different options to quickly deploy your databases. Maybe you have multiple internal customers in product teams that want to be able to setup their environments...

As the most popular open source database, MySQL has been implemented in many places, from small startups to very large organizations. Use cases vary from simple website applications to mission critical environments with 99.999% uptime...

What is a DBaaS? The current trend for DBaaS or Database-as-a-Service and its terminology have grown so much that even its nomenclature also are termed as a cloud database or a managed-service database service. Technically...

The Amazon Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) is a fully-managed database service which can support multiple database engines. Among those supported are PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. ClusterControl, on the other hand, is a database management...

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL is a managed service for PostgreSQL available as part of Amazon Web Services. It comes with a handful of management functions that are intended to reduce the workload of managing the...

Vendor lock-in is a well-known concept for database technologies. With cloud usage increasing, this lock-in has also expanded to include cloud providers. We can define vendor lock-in as a proprietary lock-in that makes a customer...

Previously we posted a blog discussing Achieving MySQL Failover & Failback on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and in this blog we'll look at how it’s rival, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), handles failover. We will...

If your IT infrastructure is running on AWS, you have probably heard about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), an easy way to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides...

Cloud computing is now commonplace in most companies. It allows for on demand availability of compute power, database, storage, applications, and other resources via the internet.  The main advantages behind the cloud are that you...

This is the second part of the multi-series Benchmarking Managed PostgreSQL Cloud Solutions. In Part 1 I presented an overview of the available tools, I discussed the reason for using the AWS Benchmark Procedure for...

This blog starts a multi-series documenting my journey on benchmarking PostgreSQL in the cloud. The first part includes an overview of benchmarking tools, and kickstarts the fun with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. Selecting the PostgreSQL Cloud...