Tag Archives: RDS

AWS Three New Database Capabilities

At AWS re:Invent 2021, Amazon Web Services announced three new database capabilities that make it easier and more cost efficient for customers to scale and run the right databases for their job. That allows customers to customize the underlying database and operating system, a new table class for Amazon DynamoDB designed to reduce storage costs […]

AWS Savings Plan VS Reserved Instance: which is better when you have spikes?

AWS offers a number of ways to save on the infrastructure you already have — such as Savings Plans, EC2 Savings Plans, and Reserved Instances for EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, and ElasticSearch.  The best thing is that they’re named so similarly and each with their own “special sauce” of recommendations that it’s deceptively easy to get […]