Several Operational Considerations for Amazon RDS
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is an ultra common cloud based database service. It is easy to setup and operate, with many operational tasks automated, and can scale with demand. RDS offers eight engine types, including six standard RDS engines: RDS for PostgreSQL, RDS for MySQL, RDS for MariaDB, RDS for SQL Server, RDS for Oracle, and RDS for Db2, as well as two Amazon Aurora engine types: Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition and Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition. There can be a number of operational considerations that provide help with the better use of RDS in enterprise settings. This blog piece discusses several of them based on real world experience. It is not intended to be an exhaust list – each organisation is expected to research and apply those considerations that are more relevant to the specific use case of the RDS. It would already be meaningful if this piece can encourage some active research and discussions on this topic. When the Provisioned IOPS storage type