Comments on: Amazon RDS – The Beginner’s Guide

By: Webyog » Top 5 Differences Between Amazon RDS and Microsoft SQL Azure

Webyog » Top 5 Differences Between Amazon RDS and Microsoft SQL Azure — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:19:24 +0000

[...] are that your applications will work seamlessly with Amazon RDS as well. For instance, in one of my previous posts, I had described how to set up SQLyog and MONyog for an Amazon RDS DB instance. SQL Azure features [...]

By: Webyog » Top 10 Things to Know About Amazon RDS

Webyog » Top 10 Things to Know About Amazon RDS — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:46:40 +0000

[...] on the server. For example, we created an extra large instance just of the purpose of the previous blog post. We only connected for a few minutes to test it but the server was idle for 99% of the time. At the [...]

By: Sayan Chaliha

Sayan Chaliha — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:04:04 +0000

Grig,

I’ve made a mistake in my blog post with the maintenance window issue. It does NOT necessarily mean that you’ll have a 4-hour downtime period every week. I’ve made a correction to the post as well…

By: Sayan Chaliha

Sayan Chaliha — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:10:32 +0000

Hey Rodney,

You are absolutely correct. You have to set up access permissions for different users, and host IPs. In my opinion, these stringent security measures are very much needed. More so because the only way you can access your DB instance is through the Internet.

By: Sayan Chaliha

Sayan Chaliha — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:03:17 +0000

Hi Grig,
Funnily enough, the “Getting Started Guide” doesn’t mention anything about maintenance. However, try the “Developer’s Guide” (page 8): There’s a short and precise paragraph on maintenance. Also, the “Command Line Interface Reference” includes several allusions to “maintenance windows” and how to change the default window.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:21:29 +0000

Hmmm.. I got an error connecting on my first DB instance.

There’s a need to authorize access to the db instance unless is not the first DB instance in RDS you got.

By: grig

grig — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:26:31 +0000

“Periodically, the Amazon RDS system performs some maintenance of the database instance. This ensures that your server is running smoothly. This also translates into a 4-hour down time period on a weekly basis.”

What? That’s a deal breaker for me. I haven’t read anything like this in the docs yet. Can you point me to your reference?

Thanks!

By: Sayan Chaliha

Sayan Chaliha — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:19:15 +0000

Hey Josh,

Glad that you liked the article. Do come back and check this blog later… We’re going to be doing a series of posts on Amazon RDS.

By: josht

josht — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:30:45 +0000

this is pretty exciting, im gonna go check it out myself. thx for the great article!

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Amazon RDS – The Beginner’s Guide › ec2base — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:36:06 +0000

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