Although AWS sometimes feels like magic, it’s just software that controls capacity and allocation on their previously provisioned hardware. RDS is one of the services that can feel especially magic, because of the general difficulty and drudgery required to set up and manage a production database. In a matter of minutes, anyone can have a production database, complete with replication, automatic failover, backup schedules, and point-in-time recovery.

Hearing you’re getting MySQL is like hearing you’ve been “volunteered” to pet sit your neighbor’s rabid ferret: There’s confusion, mild panic and the frustrating realization that someone else is saving money because you’re doing all the hard work. Open source: fantastic for IT budgets, not so fantastical for DBAs.

Sumo Logic provides digital businesses a powerful and complete view of modern applications and cloud infrastructures such as AWS. Today, we’re pleased to announce complete visibility into performance, health and user activity of the leading Amazon Aurora database via two new applications – the Sumo Logic MySQL ULM application and the Sumo Logic PostgreSQL ULM application.

NoSQL databases have always been regarded as a notch above SQL databases. The primary reason for the soaring popularity of NoSQL databases is their dynamic and cloud-friendly approach to seamlessly processing data across a large amount of commodity servers. With high scalability, availability, and reliability, AWS’s DynamoDB is a great example of a fully-managed NoSQL database.

Google Cloud Platform’s (GCP) Cloud SQL is a managed MySQL and PostgreSQL database service. This service enables you to quickly set up and manage databases for your applications without having to maintain the underlying infrastructure.

Let’s begin with a little thought experiment. Imagine you’re responsible for the next release of your company’s flagship product, and today is the big day: you’re about to give a demo presentation for all the big shots in the company. The CTO is obviously there, since she’s your boss. The CEO is there as well, along with the VP of Marketing and some of the company’s investors. So, that’s your boss, your boss’s boss, and the moneymakers.