Author: renato
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AWS Professional level recertification
Today I cleared the recertification exam as AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional. And I am very happy. I passed my first certification with AWS early in 2013 and I have been through a few AWS exams since then as all certified architects are required to renew their certifications every two years. Taking a recertification…
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My RDS is running out of IOPS. What can I do?
One of the hardest challenges to handle with RDS is running out of IOPS. How RDS storage works If you are not already familiar with the topic, there is a very detailed Storage for Amazon RDS page that covers the different storage options. The GP2 volumes have the base performance 3 times of their allocated…
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S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage is (almost) dead
As a software developer and architect I have spent countless hours discussing the benefits, the costs and the challenges of deprecating an API or a service in a product. AWS has the opportunity and the business model to skip the entire discussion and simply use the pricing element to make a service useless. Let’s take…
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Scaling a RDS Instance vertically & automatically
AWS published recently a very informative post about Scaling Your Amazon RDS Instance Vertically and Horizontally. This is a useful summary on the options you have to scale RDS – whatever a RDS MySQL, a Amazon Aurora or one of the other available engines. You can always perform vertical scaling with a simple push of…
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AWS Mobile Hub
This is a subset of the slides presented at WeDev as part of today’s Development and testing of mobile applications on AWS event. The video of the full presentation (in Italian) is available here. [googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”presentation/d/18VRqLk99Tx0QA4LdBKVb1e0nM1zXDglXQwqM9ip-7lI/embed” query=”start=true&loop=true&delayms=3000″ width=”480″ height=”299″ /]
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MySQL Security Advisory & RDS
AWS provides a very useful page where you can find all the latest security bullettins. That’s the main point of reference about MySQL and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE). Even approaching AWS (opening a ticket with business support) still brings to that page as the official source: Any official announcement related to the CVE’s will be…
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Migrating a RDS MySQL 5.6 to RDS MySQL 5.7
One of the best features of RDS is the ability to upgrade a MySQL instance – whatever it is a major or a minor version upgrade – with the click of a button. This option, assuming that the application is fully compatible to the new version, is very useful for not production deployments but gives…