MySQL – Scalability on Amazon RDS: Scale out to multiple RDS instances
- by Pinal Dave
Today, I’d like to discuss getting better MySQL scalability on Amazon RDS.
The question of the day: “What can you do when a MySQL database needs to scale write-intensive workloads beyond the capabilities of the largest available machine on Amazon RDS?”
Let’s take a look.
In a typical EC2/RDS set-up, users connect to app servers from their mobile…