Introduction to Amazon RDS:

Low Admin, High Performance

Databases in the Cloud

Brian Rice

Product Marketing Manager

Amazon Relational Database Service

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Beyond this webinar

If you host your databases on-premises

Power, HVAC, net

Rack & stack

Server maintenance

OS patches

DB s/w patches

Database backups

Scaling

High availability

DB s/w installs

OS installation

you

App optimization

If you host your databases on-premises

Power, HVAC, net

Rack & stack

Server maintenance

OS patches

DB s/w patches

Database backups

Scaling

High availability

DB s/w installs

OS installation

you

App optimization

If you host your databases in EC2

Power, HVAC, net

Rack & stack

Server maintenance

OS patches

DB s/w patches

Database backups

Scaling

High availability

DB s/w installs

OS installation

you

App optimization

If you host your databases in EC2

OS patches

DB s/w patches

Database backups

Scaling

High availability

DB s/w installs

you

App optimization

Power, HVAC, net

Rack & stack

Server maintenance

OS installation

If you choose a managed DB service like RDS

Power, HVAC, net

Rack & stack

Server maintenance

OS patches

DB s/w patches

Database backups

App optimization

High availability

DB s/w installs

OS installation

you

Scaling

The self-managed vs. AWS-managed decision

Self-managed database AWS-managed database

You have full responsibility for

upgrades and backup

Upgrades, backup, and failover are

provided as a service

You have full responsibility for security AWS provides high infrastructure

security, certifications; gives you tools

to ensure DB security

Full control over parameters of server,

OS, and database

Database is a managed appliance, so

you can easily automate

Replication is expensive, complex and

requires a lot of engineering

Failover is a packaged service

Amazon RDS: a managed SQL service

• Simple and fast to deploy

• Simple and fast to scale

• AWS handles patching, backups, replication

• Compatible with your applications

– Choose among MySQL, PostgreSQL,

Oracle, SQL Server

• Fast, predictable performance

• No cost to get started; pay only for what you consume

Flipboard relies on Amazon RDS

• Flipboard is an online magazine with millions of users and billions of “flips” per month

• Uses Amazon RDS and its Multi-AZ capabilities to store mission critical user data

"We were able to go from

concept to delivered product

in about six months with just

a handful of engineers."

- Greg Scallan, Chief

Architect, Flipboard

Samsung relies on Amazon RDS

• Samsung uses the AWS platform to build its Smart Hub applicationm which lets users of Samsung Smart TV and Blu-ray players access content of 3rd party providers

• With every user’s request, Smart Hub application authenticates devices, delivers apps and content, and pushes notifications across multiple devices

“If we were to use the traditional on-

premise datacenter, we would have

spent $34 million in hardware and

maintenance expenses during the first

two years. With AWS cloud, we met

our reliability and performance

objectives at a fraction of the cost.”

- Mr. Chun Kang, Principal Engineer,

Visual Display Division

RDS Database instances: scalable CPU, memory,

storage

• Database instance types offer a range of CPU

and memory selections – Scale up or down among instance types on demand

• Database storage is scalable on demand – Choose standard storage for lower cost at low IOPS

– Choose Provisioned IOPS for high, predictable performance and

online scaling

A simple application architecture

RDS database instance

Application, in an

Amazon EC2 instance

Elastic Load Balancer

instance

How RDS backups work

• Automated backups – Restore your database to a point in time

– Enabled by default

– Choose a retention period, up to 35 days

• Manual snapshots – Initiated by you

– Persist until you delete them

– Stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

– Build a new database instance from a snapshot when needed

Choose Multi-AZ for greater availability, durability

• An availability zone is a physically distinct, independent infrastructure

• With Multi-AZ operation, your database is synchronously replicated to another AZ in the same AWS Region

• Failover occurs automatically in response to the most important failure scenarios

• Planned maintenance is applied first to backup

A resilient, durable, still simple application

architecture

RDS database instances:

Master and Multi-AZ standby

Application, in Amazon

EC2 instances

Elastic Load Balancer

instance

DB snapshots in

Amazon S3

Choose Read Replicas for greater scalability

• Help your app scale by offloading read traffic to

an automatically maintained read replica

• Create multiple read replicas, load-share traffic

• Easy to set up Native

MySQL

RDS

Choose cross-region snapshot copy for even greater

durability, ease of migration

• Copy a database snapshot to a different

AWS Region

• Warm standby for disaster recovery

• Or use it as a base for migration to a

different region

Choose cross-region read replicas for enhanced

data locality, even more ease of migration

• Even faster recovery

in the event of

disaster

• Bring data close to

your customers

• Promote to a master

for easy migration

How RDS billing works

Monthly

bill = GB + +

Assumes DB instance accessed only from EC2

Further details at http://aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing/

= 720 hrs * $0.60 + 100 GB * $0.125 + 1,000 IOPS * $0.10

= $544.50

db.m3.xlarge; MySQL;

Oregon; Single-AZ;

On-Demand

100 GB

Provisioned IOPS

Provisioned 1,000

IOPS

Save money with RDS Reserved Instances

• Pay a low up-front fee to get a lower hourly price

on database instances for a 1- or 3-year term

• The lower-price entitlement applies to any

running instance matching its description

• Choose among Heavy, Medium, Light RIs Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4 Month 5 Month 6 Month 7 Month 8 Month 9 Month 10 Month 11 Month 12

On-demand 544.50 1,089.00 1,633.50 2,178.00 2,722.50 3,267.00 3,811.50 4,356.00 4,900.50 5,445.00 5,989.50 6,534.00

Heavy RI 1-yr 1,508.10 1,750.20 1,992.30 2,234.40 2,476.50 2,718.60 2,960.70 3,202.80 3,444.90 3,687.00 3,929.10 4,171.20

Start saving here

How to scale with Amazon RDS

• Scale up or down with resizable instance types – CPU to 32 vCPUs, RAM to 244 GiB

• Scale your storage up with a few clicks – Scale while online

– Easy conversion from standard to Provisioned IOPS storage

• Offload read traffic to Read Replicas

• Put a cache in front of Amazon RDS – Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached or Redis

– Or your favorite cache, self-managed in Amazon EC2

• Amazon RDS takes some of the pain out of sharding

Best practices for Amazon RDS

• Strongly consider Provisioned IOPS storage

• Strongly consider Multi-AZ deployments

• Make maximum use of ability to rapidly provision test environments

• Create regular DB Snapshots

• Test recovery from them

• Configure CloudWatch alerts and DB Event notifications

Security in Amazon RDS

• Security is a shared responsibility – AWS is responsible for physical security of cloud infrastructure

– You are responsible for configuring your instances securely

• Use DB security groups to govern network access to database instances

• Use Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to run DB instances in a distinct subset of the AWS cloud – Private IP address ranges, subnets, routing tables and network gateways

• Use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for fine-grained control of users and rights

• Use DB master users to govern in-DB access to data

How to migrate data into RDS

• Basic technique: dump and restore – Simple, but requires downtime

RDS for

MySQL

RDS for

Oracle

RDS for SQL

Server

RDS for

PostgreSQL

mysqldump Data Pump Generate/

Publish scripts

pgdump

mysqlimport SQL Loader Bulk Copy

(bcp)

\copy

How to migrate data into RDS, continued

• Advanced technique: apply the deltas – Replay transactions against the migration target

RDS for

MySQL

RDS for

Oracle

RDS for SQL

Server

RDS for

PostgreSQL

mysqlbinlog Mview

replication

Linked servers Use row

metadata to

capture

modified rows

Tungsten

Replicator

Golden Gate,

Dbvisit,

Attunity, Dell

SharePlex

SSIS

Schema design

Query construction

Query optimization

Migration

Backup and recovery

Patching

Configuration

Software upgrades

Storage upgrades

Server upgrades

Hardware issues

Why choose Amazon RDS?

Focus your

team here

Let AWS

focus here

Try Amazon RDS for free

• For your first year, at no charge… – Enough free instance-hours to run a “micro” instance

continuously

– 20 GB of database instance storage

– 20 GB for automated backups

– 10 million I/O operations per month

• Learn more about the AWS free tier:

http://aws.amazon.com/free/

Learn more about Amazon RDS

• Amazon RDS home page:

http://aws.amazon.com/rds/

• Amazon RDS Frequently Asked Questions:

http://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/

• Links to Import Guides for each engine:

http://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/#9

Thank you