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8 February 2024/ Last updated : 8 February 2024 Martijn WalletAWS

MySQL & Aurora 5.7 to 8.0 upgrade

I run into all kinds of challenges with consulting services. At this occassion I was involved into a performance issue with a rapidly growing Church app called DonkeyMobile. Since upgrading their Aurora RDS MySQL instances from 5.7 to 8.0 they were hitting a CPU bottleneck on one of the reader nodes. This is the kind […]

30 January 2024/ Last updated : 30 January 2024 Martijn WalletAWS

Amazon RDS vs Aurora

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) and Amazon Aurora are both managed database services provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS), but they have some key differences. Here’s an overview of each: Amazon RDS: Amazon Aurora: Key Differences: In summary, both Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora are powerful managed database services, and the choice between them depends […]