Databases contain data that is very critical to any organization. Your cloud infrastructure for databases should handle each and every component your database needs, which include storage, CPU, RAM, network, security, rules compliance, licenses, data backup and protection, and more . In addition, you must ensure that all of this is profitable for your company.
The good news is that there is a way to do all these things by running your databases in the cloud. In this article, we'll look at 5 best practices or options for running robust cloud databases, and we'll also see how Cloud Volumes ONTAP can improve databases in the cloud.
Video 1.1 AWS-Cloud Computing
1. Understand the advantages of cloud databases
Running a database in the cloud compared to the traditional database has many advantages. When running databases in the cloud, there are two implementation models to think about: PaaS (Product as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service).
DBaaS allows you to choose In the PaaS model, the public cloud provider offers a managed database service also called DBaaS, where most administrative tasks such as backups, structure, the cloud provider is responsible for providing availability supported by the SLA, and scaling up and down is the provider's responsibility. AWS provides Database as a Service, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), and Azure Database Services, such as SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, and Database. Azure for PostgreSQL can run your database with a few clicks and also provides database management consoles to manage and monitor your databases.