Running MySQL on an Amazon EC2 instance gives you more control over the database environment. You can optimize the database to your particular application requirements, choose the operating system and ...

Amazon is expanding its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) infrastructure with a new offering based on the open source MySQL database system. The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) allows users to ...

For an in-depth explanation of how to do this, see my article, “ Autoscaling MySQL on Amazon EC2.” When instances are started, Amazon automatically assigns a new IP address to them.

AWS offers multiple options to host your databases serving OLTP workloads – host your own managed database on Amazon EC2 instances or use Amazon RDS managed by AWS. RDS manages high availability ...

Oracle will now support a range of its software running in production on Amazon EC2.