Screaming In The Cloud

Aurora, from Amazon Web Services (AWS), is a MySQL-compatible service for complex database structures. It offers capabilities and opportunities. But with Aurora, you’re putting a lot of trust in AWS to “just work” in ways not traditional to relational database services (RDS). David Torgerson, Principal DevOps Engineer at Lucidchart, is a mystery wrapped in an enigma and virtually impossible to Google. He shares Lucidchart’s experience with migrating away from a traditional RDS to Aurora to free up developer time. Some of the highlights of the show include: Trade off of making someone else partially responsible for keeping your site up Lucidchart’s overall database costs decreased 25% after switching to Aurora Aurora unknowns: What is an I/Op in Aurora? When you write one piece of data, does it count as six I/Ops? Multi-master Aurora is coming for failover time and disaster recovery purposes Aurora drawbacks: No dedicated DevOps, increased failover time, and misleading performance speed Providers offer ways