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Cloud CLI

By Franck Pachot . Here is how to quickly install the CLI (Command Line Interface) for the following public clouds: Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle. On Linux, I’m using wget but you can use curl. I’ll install all cloud(…)

DynamoDB / Aurora: sparse and partial indexes

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I tried to build a glossary about Amazon DynamoDB terms that look like relational database terms, but with a different technical meaning. Here is more about it. If(…)

A VPC is a private cloud in a public cloud

By Franck Pachot . If you are surprised that the first thing you do in a Public Cloud is creating a Virtual Private Cloud, this post is for you. This is a beginner level post. And if you are(…)

Google Spanner – SQL compatibility

By Franck Pachot . I have posted, a long time ago, about Google Spanner (inserting data and no decimal numeric data types) but many things have changed in this area. There(…)

Amazon Aurora: calling a lambda from a trigger

By Franck Pachot . You may want your RDS database to interact with other AWS services. For example, send a notification on a business or administration situation, with a “push” method rather than a “pull” one from a Cloud(…)

Aurora Serverless v2 (preview) – CPU

By Franck Pachot . This follows my previous post https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/aurora-serverless-v2-ram/ ‎which you should read before this one. I was looking at the auto-scaling of RAM and it is now time to look at the CPU(…)

Aurora Serverless v2 (preview) – RAM

By Franck Pachot . What is Aurora Serverless? That’s the RDS Aurora name for auto-scaling: instead of provisioning an instance size (from the burstable db.t3.small with 2 vCPU and 2GB RAM to db.r5.16xlarge with 64 vCPU and 512 GB(…)

Database announcements at re:Invent 2020

By Franck Pachot . This year is not very nice for conferences as everything is virtual and we miss the most important: meeting and sharing with people. But the AWS re:Invent is actually a great experience. As an AWS(…)

DynamoDB Scan (and why 128.5 RCU?)

By Franck Pachot . In the previous post I described the PartiSQL SELECT for DynamoDB and mentioned that a SELECT without a WHERE clause on the partition key may result in a Scan, but the(…)

Cross-cloud PMM: which TCP ports to open

By Franck Pachot . I recently installed Percona Monitoring & Management on AWS (free tier) and here is how to monitor an instance on another cloud (OCI), in order to show which TCP port must be opened. PMM server(…)