Exploring Aurora serverlessV2 for MySQL Part 2 – Migration

Greetings everyone!!!!! Let's begin the phase II of our blog on Aurora serverless-V2. Part 1 - https://mydbops.wordpress.com/2022/05/22/exploring-auAurora-serverless-v2-for-mysqlHere, I have focused primarily on the migration strategies, hence this blog will be helpful for those who are in a stance to migrate towards serverless V2. Before entering into the migration strategies, let's take a look at the …

Synopsis of Mydbops 19th edition of MyWebinar

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 19th edition of MyWebinar. We hope that our time together helped to elevate and seam your work to perfection. We’re committed to giving back to the opensource database community in the coming days by presenting more LIVE events. Recently, Mydbops conducted a webinar on the top …

AWS MySQL Security on RDS: Database Level

In the previous blog, we have gone through about network-level security in RDS. In this blog, we will see about the Database level security in RDS. After network-level restriction to host, we can't allow a user to connect to the database from anywhere over the internet. We need to restrict user access at the Database …

Readable MultiAZ Cluster with AWS RDS MySQL under the hood.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) very recently(March 02, 2022) announced the GA of its new RDS feature “Readable standby with Multi-AZ deployments” for MySQL. Yes !! you heard it right you can now use the standby instances created with Multi-AZ deployments for failover as well as for Read-scaling starting with version 8.0.26 and later for MySQL …

Introduction to AWS MySQL Security on RDS : Network

Nowadays everything is getting digitalized and migration toward the cloud is at its peak. There is a high chance of data leaks if we don't tighten the security of the Database servers. It is mandatory to secure the database by restricting access to Database. Although we have restricted the access. We need to monitor the …

Aurora MySQL Parallel query Performance and its gains

As a continuation to my previous blog , I have made benchmarking to find the performance improvement using parallel query.Before starting the testing, we will go through the monitoring stats variables and query analysis (explain). Monitoring Aurora Parallel Query stats S:NoParameter Purpose 1Aurora_pq_request_attemptedNo of attempt that query tried to use parallel query feature.2Aurora_pq_request_executedNo of query …

Introduction to MySQL Parallel query in AWS Aurora

Aurora has a salient feature "Parallel query", Which will be more beneficial for analytical workload environments. Before going to deep dive on this particular feature, let us understand the basis of Aurora. Aurora Archiecture Key feature The key feature of Aurora is simple data synchronisation among the nodes. The sync latency will be too low …

6 Step MySQL Point-In-Time recovery on AWS RDS

Recently one of our customers ran into an issue, wherein a bad actor(code) from the application had made the wrong update to 16 M records of a critical table in the database, causing the entire production process to go down. The application Team was able to find the bad actor and block it, our Remote …

Will IO Size Affect your RDS Performance?​

During our recent consulting with one of our client, We came across an interesting issue on RDS. The baseline is that "Low IO size on your RDS instance can affect your DB performance".  Yes, It’s IO size, Not IOPS. We had our production systems running on RDS MySQL with a single master, 3 replicas. All …

ProxySQL Series:​ Amazon Aurora (RDS) Read-Write Split.

In this blog we are going to see how to implement Proxysql for Amazon Aurora RDS, this would be next in series of ProxySQL blogs. Below is the list of our previous blogs on ProxySQL which provides deeper insights based on different use cases and different architecture. MySQL replication Read-Write Split up Replication Switchover using …