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DevOps on AWS: Everything You Need to Know

DevOps is renowned for fast methodologies, increased security (in the form of DevSecOps), as well as the quick and easy scalability of software development projects. These advantages make it essential for companies to embrace the DevOps culture as a guarantee of future success and growth. 

At the heart of this change, we have Amazon and its pioneering cloud offering, Amazon Web Services. Being the most popular in the market means Amazon has some of the best services, infrastructure, locations, and support in the market. The amount of trained professionals in AWS DevOps is also the highest among the big three; Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and AWS.

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Top 5 Key Metrics for Monitoring AWS RDS

Monitoring AWS RDS may require some observability strategy changes if you switched from a classic on-prem MySQL/PostgreSQL solution.

AWS RDS is a great solution that helps you focus on the data, and forget about bare metal, patches, backups, etc. However, since you don't have direct access to the machine, you'll need to adapt your monitoring platform.

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Automatic Sharing and Loading RDS Snapshots Using Lambda

We have a scenario where we have a production and a staging account. In these accounts, we have RDS databases deployed. The RDS is set up to create an automatic snapshot once a day. For testing and validation purposes we want to keep the data in the staging environment current we want to load the daily snapshot from the production account into the staging account.

To accomplish this I created two lambdas. The first one runs in production and copies the latest snapshot and then shares it with the staging account. The second lambda runs in the staging account and renames the current database, loads the snapshot into a new database and then deletes the old database.