Amazon Web Services from a database perspective: RDS and Aurora, databases on EC2, storage, networking, IAM, migration and keeping the bill under control.
On Thursday morning, I attended the keynote Dr Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon. I have the feeling it’s one of the most awaited keynote, Werner Vogels is not just launching new services but also provide a better view on the architecture of the Cloud. The keynote started with a movie about Werner Vogels doing a road trip to Las Vegas.…
For my day 2 recap, please jump here. Third day started and Las Vegas woke up (or maybe more, never sleeps! 🙂 ! ) Organized every morning by AWS, a breakfast is served in a huge (really huge !) hall of one of the hotel. Logistic management is one of the strengths of Amazon, everything is very well marked, and…
Time flies, it’s already the 3rd day at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. As I like to have dedicated time for hands-on I started again the day with another workshop. It’s a lot of knowledge to process daily, when taking the workshop here, AWS provides a temporary account and prepared environments but hopefully most of the workshops can be done…
The 2nd day in Las Vegas at the AWS re:Invent started by one of the most important keynote. It was the keynote from Adam Selipsky, the new CEO of AWS replacing Andy Jassy who moved to Amazon after leading AWS since 2006. As usual, the keynote is a good opportunity to speak about the past successes and announce new services…
For my day 1 recap, please jump here. For the second day of that conference, I decided first to attend the keynote of Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services. Lots of annoucements as always covering various area and services. For instance : AWS Lake Formation, new Row and cell-level security, transactions for governed tables, a AWS Private 5G service…
This year, dbi services attends the AWS re:Invent 2021 conference, in Las Vegas. In the current global health situation, this event has a bit of a unexpected flavor as the previous edition was organized virtually. Having in-person such amazing event is very great ! (yes, we even tried to draw the dbi services logo on that chalkboard 😉 ) Across…
This week, I consider myself lucky I’m working with AWS at customer and at dbi since few years now and I consider myself lucky to attend the conference in person. At re:Invent, there are different types of content so you can adapt your schedule. I personally tried this year to get some diversity, I started the week with a workshop…
After more than 2 years of experience in Kubernetes cluster administration, I am deeply convinced that one of the most important things to have as an ops guy is a sandbox cluster at your disposal. This can be either a sleeping cluster or a new fresh installation with all your standards replicated on it to perform your series of tests.…
By Franck Pachot . I have published 105 additional blog posts here since the 500th one https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/rollback-to-savepoint/ that I have written on my come back to dbi-services. On Oracle Database, of course, other databases as well, on clouds (OCI and AWS mainly, with a look at GCP and Azure). But also with some thoughts on the rise of the “scale-out”…
By Franck Pachot . AWS has just added the possibility to create your oracle Database as as CDB (Container Database), the “new” architecture of Oracle where an instance can manage multiple databases, adding a new level between the heavy instance and lightweight schema: At the time I’m writing this, I see it only in the “old” console (“original interface”) not…
By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I’ve compiled PostgreSQL with GCC 7 and GCC 11 with the default options and checked that the ARM v8.2 features were used. However it may not be so simple: PostgreSQL ./configure defines gcc flags to produce a binary that is compatible with older versions of ARM. This means that it may not…
One issue with traditional database systems like PostgreSQL is, that you cannot easily scale vertically. Of course you could add read replicas and offload read operations, but that either requires changes in the application, or putting something in front that understands the PostgreSQL dialect and automatically routes writes to the primary and spreads reads across one or more replicas (e.g.…
