Amazon RDS MySQL
If you are currently running a MySQL deployment on Amazon EC2 or in another computing environment, you may be interested to learn about some of the recent releases for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Introduced last October, Amazon RDS makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale MySQL in the cloud.
In the past few weeks, Amazon RDS has added new features that further reduce the management burden of running highly available and reliable MySQL databases:
Management Console You can now use the web-based AWS Management Console to launch Database Instances (including highly available and reliable Multi-AZ deployments), take real-time snapshots of a DB Instance, and view important database statistics.
Multi-AZ Deployments With a single API call, you can create a MySQL Database Instance that is synchronously replicated across Availability Zones to provide enhanced data protection and availability in the face of planned or unplanned outages.
Now in all AWS Regions Amazon RDS is now available in all Amazon Web Services Regions: US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Northern California), EU (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore).
These recent announcements complement the core Amazon RDS functionality, which enables you to easily and quickly deploy MySQL Database Instances with parameters pre-configured for reliable high performance. Amazon RDS also offers both automated backups and DB Snapshots to allow you to define your own data retention policy and perform point-in-time database restore operations. With Amazon RDS, scaling the compute or storage resources available to your database is as simple as a single API call.
Open an account and get started with Amazon RDS, need help working with AWS? I recommend this book: Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB
Yeah, it was a little hard to setup but once it’s done it’s cool. MySQL really flys on Amazon, dont know if i will ever go back to hosting it on my own boxes.