[Architecture] use Amazon RDS instead of mirrored mysql for GaaS?

[Sanjiva Weerawarana]

Are you saying for API availability (JDBC)? Or for the data? I think they
expect you to run a server and pay hourly .. so how will they give HA
without doing some work underneath??

Sanjiva.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Afkham Azeez <azeez at wso2.com> wrote:

> http://aws.amazon.com/rds/ talks about scalability, but not availability.
> But, since access to RDS is through the Amazon APIs, I think we can safely
> assume that availability guarantees will be met.
>
> Azeez
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanjiva at wso2.com>wrote:
>
>> Folks, has anyone looked at Amazon RDS carefully? Do they give any type of
>> HA support out of the box?? Just wondering whether its a better solution for
>> GaaS rather than the mirrored MySQL model we're using with multiple servers.
>>
>> Sanjiva.
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