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Not autoscaling; you just change the instance size. If you have a separate reader and writer instance you can do basically zero downtime by shifting everything
by sgarland 3y ago
Not autoscaling; you just change the instance size. If you have a separate reader and writer instance you can do basically zero downtime by shifting everything to the primary, resizing the reader, then failing over and repeating.
Or B/G if you don’t. Still very little downtime.
- arter4 3y agoInteresting. Where I work we just jumped from huge databases on prem to managed databases on AWS, so we totally skipped that step. Interestingly, we are now starting to experiment with smaller databases managed by us, so we may find ourselves in a similar situation.