Learn the specifics of Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL’s capabilities and extensions that make it powerful. This session covers database data import, performance tuning and monitoring, troubleshooting, security, and leveraging open source solutions with RDS. Throughout, this session focuses on capabilities particular to RDS for PostgreSQL.
AWS RDS Provisioned IOPS really worth it?
If you’re ok with running replicas, we recommend running a read-only replica as a NON-RDS instance, and putting it on a regular EC2 instance. You can get better read-IOPS at a much cheaper price by managing the replica yourself. We even setup replicas outside AWS using stunnel and put SSD drives as the primary block device and we get ridiculous read speeds for our reporting systems – literally 100 times faster than we get from RDS.
AWS – an introduction to bursting (GP2 – T2)
GP2 Details:
Base performance of 3 IOPS per GB
- 100GB volume gives 300 IOPS, and 500GB gives 1500 IOPS baseline
Can burst up to 3000 IOPS
- very good fit for boot volumes and volumes that have to deliver short periods of heavy useage
- The burst time span is coverned by I/O credits
Deploy django apps to Amazon EC2 with ONE command
Fabulous will create an EC2 instance, install everything and deploy a blank django app. All in less than 2 minutes.
Process
Create server on EC2
Wait a few seconds for server to boot
Install packages
Create virtualenv
Install django in virtualenv
Install gunicorn in virtualenv
Setup and run supervisor
The setupnginx
gunicorn
supervisor
memcached
virtualenv
virtualenvwrapper
git