Amazon RDS – DB Snapshots Amazon RDS creates automated backups of your DB instance during the backup window of your DB instance and stores them as volume snapshots. Automated Backup For Automated backup to work properly, followings are the criteria. Your DB instance must be in the ACTIVE state for automated backups to occur. Automated […]
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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 […]
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, […]