Cloud

Can you become a PaaS provider for an Oracle Database service?

By Franck Pachot . This post is not about technical limitations: Oracle Database is supported in most hypervisors (certified or not) so anybody can provide a DBaaS through a virtual machine as long as it run a supported OS, has(…)

I/O Performance predictability in the Cloud

By Franck Pachot . You don't need good performance only for your system. You need reliable performance. You need performance predictability.

Créer une base Oracle sur le Cloud en quelques clicks

By Franck Pachot . Il n'a jamais été aussi facile de créer une base Oracle. Et ceci grâce au Database as a Service (DBaaS). C'est l'occasion de tester le cloud: Oracle Cloud Service offre une version d'essai de un mois.

Lost in the Cloud? My Cloud vs. My Services

By Franck Pachot . The Oracle Cloud has two interfaces that are very similar visually and it's easy to get lost and don't find what we are looking for in the menus.

Cloning a PDB to the Oracle Cloud Service

By Franck Pachot . When you create a DBaaS on the Oracle Cloud Service you have only one way to access to your database: ssh with the public rsa key you provide. Then you can open some ports to access(…)

The Postgres Plus® Cloud Database

In the last posts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) I looked at PostgreSQL in Amazon RDS. Another option you have if you want to go to the cloud(…)

About SSH keys in Oracle Public Cloud

When working with resources on the Oracle public cloud, whatever it is IaaS or PaaS, the principle access method is based on SSH keys exchange. Once our instance is created this is going to be the first and only way(…)

PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS – Loading the beast

The last posts outlined how you can bring up a PostgreSQL instance in the Amazon cloud, how you can restrict access to the instance, how you can configure it and how you can(…)

PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS – Adding a replica to the beast

In the last post I looked on how you can change the PostgreSQL parameters when the instance is running in the Amazon cloud. In this post we’ll look at how to add a replica to the PostgreSQL instance(…)

PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS – Configuring the beast

In the last post I looked at how you can strengthen the security for your PostgreSQL instance in Amazon RDS. In this post I’ll look at how you can configure your PostgreSQL instance. When you login to(…)