Amazon RDS

Nguyen Trung Thanh

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Outline
Concept
RDS Features, Functionality
Scalability
Compare to SQL Azure
Conclusion
Q&A

Solution for Database

Build your own

For example - MySQL on EC2, Postgres ,

Acquire instances
Install the database according to your architecture
Self manage your database

Database-as-a-Service
For example - Amazon RDS,
Xeround, Azure SQL.

Amazon RDS
RDS = Relational Data Storage
A Service make it easy to
+ Set up
+ Operate
+ Scale
Relational Database on Cloud

Elasticity

Similarities

Web
Portal

Your
App

Change Connection String

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RDS Features, Functionalities

Pre-configured Parameters
Monitoring and Metrics
Automatic Software Patching
Automated Backups
DB Snapshots
Push-Button Scaling
Automatic Host Replacement
Replication: two features
Multi-AZ Deployment, Read Replica
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Amazon RDS Tooling

MySQL
WorkBench
All the Oracle
Tools

AWS Management Console

CLI ( Command Line Interface )
APIs
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Scalability-Two Types of
Scaling

Scalability Scale Up vs. Scale

Out
Scale Up/Vertical Scaling
Select next available configuration (EC2, RDS)
Relatively simple but limited scalability

Scale Out/Horizontal Scaling

Add additional resources
Complicated but high scalability
RDS Read replicas

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Amazon RDS Scale Up

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Shared Everything vs. Shared

Nothing
Shared Everything
Scale throughput but limited due to shared resources
Storage and networking limitations in the cloud
ScaleDB

Shared Nothing
Horizontal data partition / sharding
Unlimited scalability
Many design and implementation
challenges

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Stategies for scaling

Read Replicas
Read replicas, also known as master-slave
deployments.
A good option for applications with a high read to write ratio.
A single master database is responsible for handling all writes.
The writes are then replicated to the slaves which are designated
to handle just reads.

Partioning/Sharding
Breaking a larger database up into smaller databases
+ Splitting tables that are not joined in the same query onto
different
hosts
+ Duplicating a table across multiple hosts and then
splitting where
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Read Replicas
Load Balancer

Master

R
R

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Read Replicas

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Multi-AZ Deployement
Availability Zones: are distinct locations within
a Region that are engineered to be isolated from
failures in other Availability Zones.
Run a DB Instance as a Multi-AZ deployment,
the primary serves database writes and reads.
Amazon RDS provisions and maintains a
standby behind the scenes, which is an up-todate replica of the primary. The standby is
promoted in failover scenarios. After failover,
the standby becomes the primary and accepts
your database operations.
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Multi-AZ Deployement
Double the price

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Sharding

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ScaleBase-Auto Sharding

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Compare to SQL Azure

Amazon RDS
Less Cloudy
Built on MySQL/Oracle
Amazon RDS wins Scale Up
SQL Azure
More Cloudy
Built on SQL Server
SQL Azure wins Scale Out
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Pricing

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Main Amazon RDS Pricing - MySQL

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Main SQL Azure Pricing

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Conclusion
Simple to Deploy
Managed
Compatible
Scalable
Reliable
Designed for use with other Amazon Web
Services
Secure
Inexpensive: On-Demand DB Instances, Reserved DB
Instances
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Q&A
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