UPDATED.
It happens, once that one does something wrong without knowing where he is making a mistake..
This is what happened yesterday when I used mysqlslap test banch on an Amazon RDS machine.
The problem is that mysqlslap does not measure query performance, rather connection performance. It is heavily influenced by latency and networking speed. Now, consider...
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Amazon AWS
We love it, we hate it. Amazon is here to stay in Cloud Computing.
Very preliminary performance tests on Amazon RDS
Features I am missing on Amazon RDS
Great service Amazon RDS.
It’s on my to-do list to evaluate it from a performance-wise perspective. The evaluation is a must as AWS is known to have steady but slow storage performance, I wonder if the RDS team did tweak their volumes.
But this is not the subject of the post:the fact is, there are two...
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Aspera on Demand for AWS: fast file transfer for the Cloud
As noted earlier: transferring huge data files with TCP/IP between Clouds is a pain…
Asperasoft is well known for their FASP product: a Layer 7 protocol for fast and reliable file transfer that found its habitat in the video industry.
Borrowing from their experience, the guys at Aspera released an AWS appliance that implements a full...
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