Amazon RDS – Multi-AZ Deployments In a Multi-AZ deployment, Amazon RDS automatically provisions and maintains a synchronous standby replica in a different Availability Zone. The primary DB instance is synchronously replicated across Availability Zones to a standby replica to provide data redundancy, eliminate I/O freezes, and minimize latency spikes during system backups. Running a DB […]
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Amazon RDS – Event Notifications Throughout the life cycle of amazon RDS DB instances, many DB events occur which are important to be known beforehand. For example – A backup of the DB instance has started, or an error has occurred while restarting MySQL or MariaDB. Notification Categories Based on the nature of the event, […]
Amazon RDS – DB Access Control To access the Amazon RDS DB instance the user needs specific permissions. This is configured using AWS IAM (Identity and Access management). In this tutorial we will see how this configuration is done. The configuration involves two parts. Authentication Access Control Authentication It involves creating the username, password and […]