Amazon Relational Database Service is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.

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Local database vs Amazon RDS

I am doing large INSERT into a local MySQL database I am at 2,000,000 rows and am really starting to notice the slowdown now. I always heard that MySQL wasn't very scalable I expect this database to ...
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How do I reduce the database size on AWS RDS MySQL?

I have an RDS MySQL database on Amazon Web Services. I want to reduce the size of the database in the control panel in order to save money. Q: How do I make it smaller? Their site says you have to ...
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When should I think about upgrading our RDS MySQL instance based on memory usage?

It seems like our DB server is doing garbage collection at a increasingly faster rate, which seem normal since it's growing. What's a good rule of thumb of when to switch to a bigger instance, I'm not ...
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Does the Amazon RDS backup/snapshot service lock tables?

We have a database that is 100+GB. Most tables use the InnoDB engine. A regular dump takes 1-2 hours. If we moved to Amazon RDS, would this backup cause table locks? Does Amazon use a simple ...
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MySQL 5.5 Runs Out of Memory, Drops All Connections When Creating Many Databases

I'm running into a problem when I create a large number of databases consecutively on an Amazon RDS db.m1.large instance. The MySQL Engine Version is 5.5.23. At some point, the RDS instance drops all ...
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MySQL on RDS, data transfer from one instance to another as a production job

I have a MySQL RDS instance ("production") from which I need to copy incremental data to another MySQL RDS instance ("reporting"). “Incremental data” being the new rows in certain tables. Currently ...
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Random write freezes

I have a MySQL 5.5.23 DB that performs about 3k qps, 5% of which are writes. Lately, I've been having a big problem with random write freezes. Everything is going great, and then all of a sudden any ...
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Should I increase max_connections in AWS RDS t1-micro for MySQL?

I have an AWS RDS t1-micro running MySQL 5.5. It gives me too many connections error. I checked and it allows 34 maximum connections concurrently. What I have read is that i can increase this max ...
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MySQL localhost vs Amazon RDS instance

I am seeing unexpected behavior with some MySQL performance. When I run a simple query SELECT 1; on my local host (MySQL 5.6.x) using workbench, it executes in 0.000s, but the same query run on ...
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MySQL optimization

I'm trying to optimize a MySQL Server to be able to serve as many connections as it can. The server is in AmazonAWS RDS and has currently the following resources: --7.5 GB memory, 4 ECUs (2 ...