AWS: Installing RDS Instance

Create Instance Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. You can click the button below to launch a Database (DB) Instance in minutes with automated backups, turnkey Multi-AZ replication and free monitoring metrics. Amazon RDS gives you access to a familiar MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or SQL Server database to facilitate compatibility with existing code, applications, and tools. Launch a DB Instance Engine Selection To get started, choose the DB Instance details below and click Select mysql MySQL Community Edition Select postgres PostgreSQL Select <table cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”0″ border=”0″><tbody> […]

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Technical Architecting: A quick AWS Architecture Design for a Web based Software solutions startup company

AWS Architecture Design: Requirements BRIEF Imagine that you meet with a small startup company in the early stages of their operations. Currently their architecture uses a LAMP stack with MySQL, Apache and PHP all running on one desktop PC within their small office. Like many small start-ups they are confident that they will be the next big thing and expect significant, rapid, yet un-quantified growth in the next few months. With this in mind, they are concerned about: scaling to meet the demand, but with uncertainty around when and how much this demand will be they are very concerned about […]

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