Amazon RDS recently announced support for file-based logs. http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/03/04/amazon-rds-db-log-access/
Comment: Percona Toolkit for MySQL Webinar Followup Questions
April 5, 2013 By 1 Comment
Amazon RDS recently announced support for file-based logs. http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/03/04/amazon-rds-db-log-access/
Post: Percona Toolkit for MySQL Webinar Followup Questions
April 5, 2013 By 1 Comment
… run against Amazon RDS instances? A: It depends. Most MySQL tools can connect to remote hosts and will work with Amazon RDS but others…
Post: MySQL on Amazon RDS part 1: insert performance
March 15, 2011 By 37 Comments
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: How to STOP SLAVE on Amazon RDS read replica
December 20, 2012 By 4 Comments
… a migration from Amazon RDS to EC2 with a customer. This, unfortunately, involves some downtime – if you are an RDS user, you probably… just run the following to resume replication: replica> CALL mysql.rds_skip_repl_error; master> DROP DATABASE percona; Note: If you… an earlier MySQL version and it does not have the rds_skip_repl_error procedure, you can try removing the conflicting…
Post: MySQL on Amazon RDS part 2: Determining Peak Throughput
March 28, 2011 By 4 Comments
… 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…
Post: MySQL performance on EC2/EBS versus RDS
August 4, 2011 By 11 Comments
… the Internet, and seems reasonable from my own observations, that Amazon RDS is built on EC2 machines and EBS RAID volumes under…, it seems valid. However, the versions of MySQL that Amazon runs on RDS may not be the most advanced available. My benchmarks….1. This leads me to a second unverifiable speculation, that Amazon RDS‘s version of MySQL is probably closer to stock MySQL…
Post: Analyzing Slow Query Table in MySQL 5.6
February 18, 2013 By 1 Comment
… log in table format. Users of some MySQL appliances like Amazon RDS must use table logs, since they can’t access the… skew your average query time report. Still, if you use Amazon RDS or a similar instance without filesystem access, you may want…
Comment: MySQL performance on EC2/EBS versus RDS
August 6, 2011 By 11 Comments
I think you may find this benchmark on RDS and Xeround DB’s very interesting, and with Xeround, there is no need to do sharding, it is distributed by nature. That’s how high concurrency with low latency is achieved. http://xeround.com/cloud-database-comparison/xeround-vs-amazon-rds-benchmark/
Post: Percona Welcomes MySQL 5.6!
February 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
….6 In addition to Percona Server, Percona XtraDB Cluster, MariaDB, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Drizzle, and Oracle MySQL, MySQL 5.6 is…
