Cloud

Oracle Database Appliance vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Introduction Oracle Database Appliances are very popular these days. And not only among new customers for this kind of engineered systems. Almost all customers already using old generation ODAs are renewing their infrastructure by choosing again ODAs, meaning that the(…)

What is Object Storage?

By Franck Pachot . I’ve always been working with databases. Before the cloud era, the most abstract term was “data”. A variable in memory is data. A file is data. A block of disk contains data.

Installing MySQL Server on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute

If you are thinking about to move your MySQL databases to the Cloud but you are still reticent, you can maybe use the "Oracle Cloud Free Tier" offer to test it.

A Serverless Standby Database called Oracle Autonomous Data Guard

By Franck Pachot . Announced by Larry Ellison last week, here it is: the Autonomous Data Guard. You can try it, unfortunately not on the Free Tier. First you create an Autonomous Database (ATP or ADW) and then(…)

Oracle Cloud basics for beginners

Introduction Cloud, Cloud, Cloud. Everyone is talking about the Cloud but a lot of people are still in the fog with Cloud technologies. Let’s talk about basic features of the Oracle Cloud, called OCI for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. What is(…)

Always free / always up tmux in the Oracle Cloud with KSplice updates

By Franck Pachot . I used to have many VirtualBox VMs on my laptop. But now, most of my labs are in the Cloud. Easy access from everywhere. GCP There’s the Google Cloud free VM which is not(…)

Some thoughts about working with/on AWS

In the last year working with/on AWS has become an almost daily task in my life as a consultant and trainer. From a trainer perspective there is not much to say about it because we use a very limited amount(…)

Rapid PostgreSQL cloning using AWS EBS snapshots

When you go for AWS EC2 instances to host your PostgreSQL deployments and you want to rapidly clone PostgreSQL instances for development or testing purposes you can make use of AWS EBS(…)

Using AWS Storage Gateway as a backup target for PostgreSQL – Cached volume gateway

In the last post we had a look on how you can use AWS Storage Gateway as File gateway to store your PostgreSQL backups safely offsite on AWS(…)

Using AWS Storage Gateway as a backup target for PostgreSQL

In the last post we had a quick look at AWS Kinesis data streams and how you can push data to AWS S3 using(…)