An Overview of Amazon RDS & Aurora Offerings for PostgreSQL
AWS PostgreSQL services fall under the RDS umbrella, which is Amazon’s DaaS offering for all known database engines. Managed database services offer certain advantages that are appealing to the customer seeking independence from infrastructure maintenance,...
Comparing RDS vs EC2 for Managing MySQL or MariaDB on AWS
RDS is a Database as a Service (DBaaS) that automatically configures and maintains your databases in the AWS cloud. The user has limited power over specific configurations in comparison to running MySQL directly on Elastic...
Comparing Cloud Database Options for PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is world’s most advanced and preferred open source RDBMS for many start-ups, mobile applications and developers. The traditional way to set up, operate and scale PostgreSQL is time consuming and requires expertise in database...
Cloud Database Features Comparison – Amazon RDS vs Google Cloud SQL
As more companies run their workloads in the cloud, cloud database services are increasingly being used to manage data. One of the advantages of using a cloud database service instead of maintaining your database is...
ClusterControl in the Cloud – All Our Resources
While many of our customers utilize ClusterControl on-premise to automate and manage their open source databases, several are deploying ClusterControl alongside their applications in the cloud. Utilizing the cloud allows your business and applications to...
Migrating MySQL Database from Amazon RDS to DigitalOcean
In previous blogs (part 1 and part 2), we discussed how to migrate your RDS data into an EC2 instance. In the process, we managed to move our data out of RDS, but we are...
MySQL in the Cloud – Online Migration from Amazon RDS to Your own Server: Part2
As we saw earlier, it might be challenging for companies to move their data out of RDS for MySQL. In the first part of this blog, we showed you how to set up your target...
MySQL in the Cloud – Online Migration From Amazon RDS to EC2 Instance: Part One
In our previous blog, we saw how easy it is to get started with RDS for MySQL. It is a convenient way to deploy and use MySQL, without worrying about operational overhead. The tradeoff though...
MySQL in the Cloud – Pros and Cons of Amazon RDS
Moving your data into a public cloud service is a big decision. All the major cloud vendors offer cloud database services, with Amazon RDS for MySQL being probably the most popular. In this blog, we’ll...
Infrastructure Automation – Deploying ClusterControl and MySQL-Based Systems on AWS using Ansible
We recently made a number of enhancements to the ClusterControl Ansible Role, so it now also supports automatic deployment of MySQL-based systems (MySQL Replication, Galera Cluster, NDB Cluster). The updated role uses the awesome ClusterControl...