Amazon RDS – Multi-AZ Deployment now Available

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Amazon just announced the new feature for Amazon RDS.

Amazon RDS – Multi-AZ Deployments For Enhanced Availability & Reliability

Amazon RDS simplifies many of the common tasks associated with the deployment, operation, and scaling of a relational database. You don’t have to worry about acquiring and installing hardware, loading an operating system, installing and configuring MySQL, or managing backups. In addition, scaling the processing power or storage space available to your database is as simple as an API call.

When we rolled out Amazon RDS last October, we also announced plans to have a “High Availability” option in the future. That option is now ready for you to use, and it’s called “Multi-AZ Deployments.” AZ is short for “Availability Zone”; each of the four AWS Regions is comprised or two or more such zones, each with independent power, cooling, and network connectivity.

The availability and reliability characteristics of Multi-AZ deployments make them well suited for critical production environments.

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Launching Asia Pacific EC2 Instances using Mr.Awsome

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Since the AWS announcment of Asia Pacific Region, I’m testing launching some instances and using Fabric for deployment. I found another tool by Florian Schulze which integrates Fabric in his tool to launch EC2 instance: mr.awsome.

I just added some lines to be able to get to use a different user when executing the Fabric commands, my fork is found here.

My aim here is to be able to launch and test EC2 instances at Asia-Pac region plus experimenting with mr.awsome tool.
Download the latest EC2-API Tools and setup EC2 environment.

$ wget http://ec2-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-api-tools.zip
$ unzip ec2-api-tools.zip

On the terminal execute the following. To make it permanent add these lines on the ~/.bashrc

export EC2_HOME=$HOME/<where your ec2-api-tools>
export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=$HOME/<where your private key is>/pk-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.pem
export EC2_CERT=$HOME/<where your certificate is>/cert-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.pem
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<your-accesskey>
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<your-secretkey>
export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin

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