May 22, 2012

Post: MySQL on Amazon RDS part 1: insert performance

Amazon‘s Relational Database Service (RDS) is a cloud-hosted MySQL solution. I’ve had some … very revealing. To understand the sustained write performance of an RDS instance, we need a multi-threaded long-term insert benchmark… next post in this series, we will see how the Amazon RDS instance performed at various thread counts on the OLTP benchmark…

Post: MySQL on Amazon RDS part 2: Determining Peak Throughput

… continuation of my series of benchmark posts comparing Amazon RDS to a server running on Amazon EC2. Upcoming posts (probably 6 or 8…, I ran a series of 60-second benchmarks on the RDS server, and extracted the transactions per second from them, then… note that these are the results I achieved on this RDS server, from this EC2 “driver” machine, at this specific point…

Comment: Death match! EBS versus SSD price, performance, and QoS

…/analysis on the RDS service? http://aws.amazon.com/rds I must admit….every time I consider using these specialized services, RDS, SNS, SES… around is that giving up such control means less moving parts for the client to administer.