Amazon AWS and RDS, moving towards it

Amazon AWS and RDS, moving towards it

Dimitri Vanoverbeke Solution Engineer @ Percona

Who am I?

? Solution engineer in Percona for almost 4 years ? Prior to Percona an open source system integrator ? MySQL, puppet, General Linux, ... ? I'm a Belgian, located in the city of Ghent! ? Aka Dim0

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What is AWS?

? Acronym for Amazon Web Services ? A division of (the book retailer) ? Operates as a set of connected services

? EC2, LB, Beanstalk, containers, application services, messaging, identity management, ...

? EVERYTHING IS A SERVICE! ? Fun fact: AWS came to be first to support MySQL as cloud solution ? until they finished this concept

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Why could you use AWS?

? Easy to configure and deploy!

? Often used in startup mode but also in mature companies.

? Easy solution to have infrastructure.

? Often used to move to a public cloud offering (ask your manager why)

? No high step in cost! You pay for what you use.

? EC2 services are sometimes within a free tier or with limited cost ? Something your manager will appreciate ? Costs are incremental

? You can limit the amount of systems based on usage

? Auto scaling application servers, ...

? No infrastructure management

? It will give you less worries, if all works well :-D

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Why shouldn't you use AWS?

? You prefer to get your hands dirty yourself.

? You feel satisfaction when configuring switches, replacing raid controllers, enclosures and other pleasureful hardware actions.

? You don't trust external partners maintaining your infrastructure.

? You wake up at night in cold sweat thinking about the lack of visibility you have in the cloud providers Datacenter

? You are essentially running your infrastructure on `other people's computers'

? You have extremely stringent availability concerns however, typically people get a better uptime in the cloud vs. own equipment.

? You require 99.99999999999 % uptime for your infrastructure.

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