multi-region

You’ve seen the recent news about AWS outages; enterprises have to think about where their physical AWS data centers are and treat them as a single point of failure. As such, enterprises running business-critical and mission-critical applications are accounting for geography of public cloud resources in their business-continuity plans. Learn about a solution for continuous operations for your MySQL database that’s a step above traditional MySQL Disaster Recovery (DR).

A VPC peering connection is a networking connection between two VPCs that enables you to route traffic between them using private IP addresses. Instances in either VPC can communicate with each other as if they are within the same network. This blog provides step-by-step instructions on how to set up VPC networking between regions (also known as inter-region VPC peering connections).

As we are all being pushed to the limit to meet unprecedented demands online, the pandemic shined a light on many new frontiers and achievements in technology. This blog is about continuous MySQL database operations when you have a global user base, particularly the VMworld 2021 Global Multi-Cloud conference.

For multi-site, multi-region, or geo-distributed MySQL or MariaDB clusters, Saas, Fintech and other organizations with business-critical MySQL databases typically require what’s called a managed “composite” cluster, or “cluster-of-clusters.” This blog is about active/active and active/passive composite clusters for multi-site MySQL and MariaDB database systems.