My AWS Musings

Amazon documentation states that Auto Scaling allows you to automatically scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down according to conditions you define. Simply put, it can start and stop ec2 instances based on a condition you define. This is especially important in an environment where you pay more for more capacity. Thus if a [...]

Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) offers hosted MySQL database in the cloud. In pre RDS era, you would have fired up an instance, installed MySQL yourself on it, configured an EBS volume so that the database data storage is persistent. You would have setup a cron to snapshot your EBS volume. But RDS saves the [...]