MySQL on RDS has its pros and cons. Only your organization can decide if the solution meets your needs. Migrating from a traditonal MySQL database to RDS may not be a simple task.
Category Archives: AWS
AWS: VPC NAT
Believe it or not, VPC does not provide native NAT functionality. Hopefully, someday, we’ll get a NAT equivalent to IGW. Until then, NAT functionality is implemented through an EC2 NAT instance, usually running Linux.
AWS: Naming UNIX instances
Problem
Generating meaningful hostnames without human intervention.
AWS: Introduction to VPC Networking
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) provides a framework for building virtual datacenters within AWS.
AWS: VPC: Autoscaling and Deployment
The problems
1. Distributing code to autoscaled EC2 instances without user interaction .
2. Launching new instances with the current code release.
AWS: VPC: NAT: S3 incomplete files
If you’re using s3 behind a VPC NAT connection, you may find that some files fail to download completely.