AWS Aurora – it’s showtime for Amazon’s new RDS engine
AWS Aurora database engine is fully released, it’s time to see how it runs in the real world. For some time, AWS has offered managed relational databases (RDS) for MySQL, SQLServer, Oracle, and Postgres deployments. Now, after some months in…
[AuroraDB]: How to determine to which DB Instance we connected to
Determining Which DB Instance You Are Connected To You can determine which DB instance in an Aurora DB cluster that a connection is connected to by checking the innodb_read_only global variable, as shown in the following example. SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES…
[AuroraDB]: How to monitor replica lag
Monitoring Aurora Replication Engine DB Instance Status CPU Current Activity Class VPC Multi-AZ Replication Role Aurora my-auroradb-cluster available 0.78% 1 Connections db.r3.xlarge…
[AuroraDB]: Simulating failures using SQL
Testing Amazon Aurora Using Fault Injection Queries You can test the fault tolerance of your Amazon Aurora DB cluster by using fault injection queries. Fault injection queries are issued as SQL commands to an Amazon Aurora instance and they enable…
[MySQL]: SysBench Installation procedure
SysBench: System evaluation benchmark Why ? The idea is to quickly get an impression about system performance for MySQL usage without setting up complex benchmark and even without installing MySQL. In some cases this is very helpful. This is also the…
What is AuroraDB ?
Amazon Aurora is a fully-managed, MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and reliability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. It delivers up to five times the performance of MySQL without requiring changes…
AuroraDB – 5x better performance than standard MYSQL
Aurora on Amazon RDS Amazon Aurora is a fully-managed, MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and reliability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. It delivers up to five times the performance…
Amazon RDS for AuroraDB
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora provides up to five times better performance than MySQL at a…