Many web applications have been built on an open source stack that included MySQL. Despite its limitations, MySQL managed to become the world’s most widely used open source RDBMS. What limitations, ...

An RDS cluster has a number of required AWS resources in order to be successfully created and accessed. Some of these resources require additional IAM policy permissions in addition to the AWS Managed ...

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In an Amazon Aurora database (DB) cluster, failover is a mechanism by which Aurora automatically repairs the DB cluster status when a primary DB instance becomes unavailable. It achieves this goal by ...

Amazon’s revved-up database service offers five times the throughput of MySQL and a formidable alternative to Oracle and SQL Server The 20-year-old MySQL database is the world’s most widely used open ...

At its recent re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon announced its new database engine Aurora, claiming it to be a commercial grade database engine at open-source cost. “It’s at least as available, ...

Aurora is an AWS database service that is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, but uses an innovative database engine behind the scenes. Applications that currently use MySQL/PostgreSQL can be ...

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