Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com
company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced Amazon Relational Database Service
(Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL. Amazon RDS manages complex and
time-consuming administrative tasks such as PostgreSQL software
installation and upgrades, storage management, replication for
high-availability and back-ups for disaster recovery. With just a few
clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can deploy a PostgreSQL
database in minutes with automatically configured database parameters
for optimal performance. Customers can provision a PostgreSQL database
with five gigabytes of storage to start and easily scale up to as much
as three terabytes without incurring any downtime. PostgreSQL is the
fourth database engine for Amazon RDS, which already supports managed
MySQL, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server deployments. To get started with
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, visit http://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/.
Over the past few years, PostgreSQL has become the preferred open source
relational database for many enterprise developers and start-ups,
powering leading web, mobile, social and geospatial applications. With
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, application developers can now take advantage
of PostgreSQL as a fully managed service, offloading database management
tasks to free up more time to focus on application innovation and
delivering value to their customers.
“Since we launched Amazon RDS four years ago, a large number of
enterprises and startups have adopted the service because it allows them
to run familiar relational databases without any of the operational
complexity of on-premise systems, at a substantially lower cost,” said
Raju Gulabani, Vice President of Database Services, AWS. “As mobile,
web, social and geospatial applications proliferate, we have seen a
steady demand for PostgreSQL as a managed service. We're pleased to
bring the agility, manageability and cost benefits of the Amazon RDS
platform to PostgreSQL.”
Amazon RDS supports the core PostgreSQL database features, including
PostGIS, free text indexing and search extensions, offering the
following benefits:
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Scalability and performance. Amazon RDS Provisioned IOPS
(PIOPS) storage enables customers to scale I/O operations to 30,000
IOPS per database instance, and achieve consistent, fast performance.
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High-availability. Customers can deploy production PostgreSQL
applications using the multi-Availability Zone deployment option, and
Amazon RDS will operate a synchronous stand-by replica with an
automated fail-over mechanism. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL also supports
cross-region snapshot copy operations allowing customers to keep a
back-up copy in a different region from the master database for
disaster recovery purposes.
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Security. Customers can operate PostgreSQL databases in a
logically isolated virtual network fully configured and controlled
with strict firewall policies using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
(Amazon VPC).
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Flexibility. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports
PostgreSQL-specific programming language extensions such as pgSQL, Tcl
and Perl.
ESRI, a global leader in geo-spatial applications, has been testing
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. “Thousands of enterprises rely on ArcGIS to
build rich geospatial applications that combine location data with
business analytics,” said Marwa Mabrouk, Cloud and Big Data Product
Manager, ESRI Inc. “As our customers move their applications to the
cloud, many of them choose PostgreSQL. We are excited about Amazon RDS
for PostgreSQL because customers can focus on their business and not on
the database administration. We think Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL is
simple to use, cost-effective and will enable ArcGIS developers to be
more productive. We are looking forward to expanding our usage.”
Illumina is a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of life
science tools and integrated systems for large-scale analysis of genetic
variation and function. “Using Basespace, biologists and informaticians
can easily and securely analyze, archive and share sequencing data,”
said Greg Roberts, BaseSpace Development Lead, Illumina. “Building
reliable services that store customer data using a secure, robust open
source database like PostgreSQL is what I want my team to focus on – not
the management of the database. We are excited that Amazon RDS
PostgreSQL allows us to keep that focus, while making backup, recovery,
replication, fault tolerance and disaster recovery of our PostgreSQL
databases just a click away.”
Inmobi, the world’s largest independent mobile ad network, analyzes
hundreds of terabytes of data and provides real-time mobile advertising
intelligence to engage over 600 million users in 165
countries. “Delivering the right ad, at the right location, at the right
time requires us to analyze multiple data sources like location,
free-text input, user demographics and other heuristics,” said Mohit
Saxena, Co-Founder and Vice President Technology, InMobi. “During our
beta testing phase, we used Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and found that
it reduces the time and complexity in managing our PostgreSQL databases.”
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL is available globally in all AWS regions. To
learn more and get started with Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, visit http://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/.
About Amazon Web Services
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services, Inc. began exposing key
infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now
widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud
computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and
turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no
longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or
months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon's
expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business
needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon
Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost
infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands
of enterprise, government and startup customers businesses in 190
countries around the world. Amazon Web Services offers over 30 different
services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon
Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Relational Database
Service (Amazon RDS). AWS services are available to customers from data
center locations in the U.S., Brazil, Europe, Japan, Singapore and
Australia.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle,
opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s
Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything
they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the
lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of
unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books;
Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home
& Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health &
Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web
Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to
in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end
technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any
type of business. Kindle Paperwhite is the world’s best-selling and most
advanced e-reader. It features new display technology with higher
contrast, the next generation built-in light, a faster processor, the
latest touch technology, and exclusive new features designed from the
ground up for readers. Kindle, the lightest and smallest Kindle,
features improved fonts and faster page turns. The new Kindle Fire HDX
features a stunning exclusive 7” or 8.9” HDX display, a quad-core 2.2
GHz processor, 2x more memory, and 11 hours of battery life, as well as
exclusive new features of Fire OS 3.0 including X-Ray for Music, Second
Screen, Prime Instant Video downloads, and the revolutionary new Mayday
button. The all-new Kindle Fire HD includes an HD display,
high-performance processor and dual speakers at a breakthrough price.
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