Deep dive into scaling applications with RDS Proxy
Learn how to scale your applications with RDS Proxy for increased availability, resilience, and security.
00:00:01 Learn how to scale your applications with RDS Proxy to make them more available, resilient, and secure. Explore the benefits, best practices, and a new announcement for RDS Proxy.
🔑 RDS Proxy helps scale applications by providing better availability, resilience, and security.
📊 Applications running in the cloud require scalability to handle increasing workload efficiently.
🔒 Better access control and not sharing credentials are essential for maintaining application security.
00:04:28 AWS re:Invent 2020: Learn about Amazon RDS Proxy for scaling applications. Fully managed, compatible with MySQL and Postgres, supports connection pooling and faster failovers, integrates with Secrets Manager for secure authentication.
🔑 Amazon RDS Proxy is a fully managed database proxy service.
⚡ It supports connection pooling with multiplexing, enabling a large number of application connections with a smaller set of database connections.
🛡️ RDS Proxy integrates closely with Secrets Manager for secure credential storage and allows enforcement of IAM authentication to avoid storing passwords in application configuration files.
00:08:57 This video explores AWS re:Invent 2020's Amazon RDS Proxy. It provides connection pooling, failover, and security controls for scaling applications. The proxy intelligently manages connections, increasing scalability and efficiency while ensuring availability.
📚 Amazon RDS Proxy provides connection pooling, failover, and security controls for applications connecting to databases.
🔀 RDS Proxy increases application scalability and database resource efficiency by smartly managing database connections.
🌐 RDS Proxy improves application availability by preserving connections during failovers and facilitating faster seamless failovers.
00:13:29 This video provides a deep dive into Amazon RDS Proxy for scaling applications. It discusses failover times, authentication and authorization, and configuring security groups.
⏱️ Failover times with direct connection to the database range from 10 to 50 seconds, but with RDS Proxy they are consistently under 10 seconds.
🔒 RDS Proxy provides authentication and authorization options, including storing credentials in Secrets Manager and using IM execution role for authentication.
🔒 Security groups in RDS Proxy control access between the application, proxy, and database.
00:17:58 A deep dive into Amazon RDS Proxy for scaling applications: Setup, security groups, database connections, and monitoring with CloudWatch.
⭐ Amazon RDS Proxy allows for easy setup and scaling of applications that communicate with a database.
✨ The setup involves configuring security groups to allow communication between the application, proxy, and database.
📈 Monitoring tools like CloudWatch can track the number of connections and help manage scalability.
00:22:26 This video explores how Amazon RDS Proxy allows for scaling applications and seamless failovers. It demonstrates the power of RDS Proxy to handle a large number of connections and showcases its ability to maintain connections even during failovers.
💡 Amazon RDS Proxy allows for scalable application by supporting 1,000 connections or 15 times the capacity of the database.
⚙️ Seamless and faster failovers are demonstrated using two instances and the cluster endpoint, with minimal disruption and quick reconnection to the database.
🔒 RDS Proxy provides transaction-level load balancing and sharing, improving scalability and minimizing resource overhead on the database instance.
00:26:56 AWS re:Invent 2020: Deep dive into Amazon RDS Proxy for scaling applications. Learn about connection pooling, failovers, session state, and new features like read replicas.
🔒 The Amazon RDS Proxy tracks changes to variables, functions, prepared statements, and other configurations.
🔄 To avoid pinning, exclude variable sets and use initialization queries to maintain consistent session state.
📊 Monitor metrics such as session pinning and borrow latency to optimize proxy usage and scale database capacity.
🔁 Read replicas will soon be supported on RDS Proxy, providing connection pooling, faster failovers, and better security.
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