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Using Enhanced RDS Monitoring with Datadog

AWS recently announced enhanced monitoring for Amazon RDS instances running MySQL, MariaDB, and Aurora. Enhanced monitoring includes over 50 new CPU, memory, file system, and disk I/O metrics which can be collected on a per-instance basis as frequently as once per second. AWS and Datadog AWS worked closely with Datadog to help customers send this new high-resolution data to Datadog for monitoring.… Read more

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Amazon ECS turns Docker containers into the new VMs

Credit: Getty Images After Google went all-in on Docker with Container Engine, it was only a matter of time before Amazon took similar action. In Thursday’s keynote speech at AWS Reinvent, Amazon unveiled the EC2 Container Service(ECS), currently available as a technology preview. Rather than create a new deployment system specifically for Docker, Amazon uses the existing infrastructure of EC2 instances to deploy and manage containers.… Read more

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It’s no coincidence that Amazon and Microsoft are rethinking the computer

They may have been founded decades apart, but Microsoft and Amazon have a lot in common. Both companies were established out of their founders’ garages. Both make their homes in the larger Seattle area. Both are leading the cloud-computing market. And with gadgets like the Microsoft HoloLens holographic goggles and Amazon Echo digital-voice assistant, both companies want to redefine the notion of computing beyond the PC and smartphone.… Read more

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Amazon Aurora, a cheaper alternative to MySQL and PostgreSQL

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora provides up to five times better performance than MySQL with the security, availability, and reliability of a commercial database at one tenth the cost.… Read more

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Set up Amazon VPC peering to work with AWS resources outside of Amazon Lightsail

Lightsail lets you connect to AWS resources, such as an Amazon RDS database, through virtual private cloud (VPC) peering. Doing so lets you separate your data tier from the rest of your application. A VPC is a virtual network dedicated to your AWS account. Everything you create inside Lightsail is inside a VPC, and you can connect your Lightsail VPC to an Amazon VPC.… Read more