You want to make your wordpress site bulletproof? No server outage worries? Want to make it faster & more reliable. And also host on cheaper components? I was after all these gains & also wanted to kick the tires on some of Amazon’s latest devops offerings. So, I plotted a way forward to completely automate…
Amazon’s spot market for computing power is set up as an open market for surplus servers. The price is dynamic and depends on demand. So, when demand is low, you can get computing instances for rock-bottom prices. When you do that, you normally set a range of prices you’re willing to pay. If it goes…
There are a lot of considerations for deploying MySQL in the Cloud. Some concepts and details won’t be obvious to DBAs used to deploying on traditional servers. For this, we have provided eight best practices in this guide that will certainly set you off on the right foot. Let’s explore them below. This article is part…
ECS is Amazon’s Elastic Container Service. That’s Greek for how you get docker containers running in the cloud. It’s sort of like Kubernetes without all the bells and whistles. It takes a bit of getting used to, but This terraforms how to, should get you moving. You need an EC2 host to run your containers…
I was discussing a server outage with a colleague recently. AWS had done some confusing things, and the team was rallying to troubleshoot & fix it. He made an offhand comment that caught my attention…AWS is too complex for small dev teams. I’d recommend we host in a traditional data center. AWS to Small Dev…
Can RDS worsen an outage ?? That’s another way to think about this question. In my experience, it very clearly increases outages, by tying one or both hands behind your back. Believe me, when I say, that is terribly frustrating when you’re putting out fires! Downsides of Upgrading RDS There are several downsides to upgrading RDS….
It seems like all I hear these days is Redshift, Redshift, Redshift! I met up with a recruiter today. We talked about this & that. The usual. Then when he came to the topic of technology he said, “Yeah, it seems as though suddenly everybody is looking for Redshift & Snowflake” As I blogged about…
AWS SQL and Azure SQL server are excellent cloud services, with more than 99.9% availability, competitive pay-as-you-go pricing strategies, and more. Yet, they have certain limitations in scalability, integration, and security. So, choosing one can be tough if you’re just starting out. A comparison of SQL server on AWS vs Azure When comparing SQL servers…
Autoscaling your webserver tier is typically straightforward. Image your Apache server with source code or without, then sync down files from S3 upon spinup. Roll that image into the autoscale configuration and you’re all set.With the database tier though, things can be a bit tricky. The typical configuration we see is to have a single…
Today part of Amazon Web Services failed, taking down with it a slew of startups that all run on Amazon’s Cloud infrastructure. Airbnb was one of the biggest, but also Heroku, Reddit, Minecraft, Flipboard & Coursera were down with it. As it’s, you might think what the heck happened, and why should we care? Well, this…