Database failures are inevitable. Even with the most reliable hardware and software, something will eventually break. AWS RDS Multi-AZ deployments promise to handle these failures gracefully, automatically failing over to a standby database when prob...
There are two managed relational database services in AWS: Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon Aurora. Both provide the benefits of a fully managed database solution, but they have distinct features and use cases. In this article, we'...
We're building an e-commerce app with DynamoDB for the database, pretty similar to the one we built for the DynamoDB Database Design article. No need to go read that issue (though I think it came up great), here's how our database works: Customers a...
Note: This content was originally published at the Simple AWS newsletter. As you probably know, DynamoDB is a NoSQL database. It's a managed, serverless service, meaning you just create a Table (that's the equivalent of a Database in Postgres), and A...
We're running an e-commerce platform, where people publish products and other people purchase those products. Our backend has some highly scalable microservices running on well-designed Lambdas, and there's a lot of caching involved. Our order proces...
What is an AWS RDS instance? An AWS RDS instance is a database instance created with the AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) service, which comes pre-configured with a relational database engine, such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, and is optimized for da...
