Explore 7 proven patterns to scale and protect your cloud databases using AWS tools like Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, and more.
When you build an application on the cloud, the most important layer is the database layer, which plays a critical role in the application's overall performance. This database layer can hold many types of data like transaction logs, business data and customer records. The main challenge comes when hundreds of thousand of users access the application at same time. Based on my experience I have practically seen that in such cases most of the time database goes down due to high incoming traffic. In such scenarios, scalability and high availability plays a very important role.
Scalability means database should be able to handle increased incoming traffic and high data volume. On the other side, high availability means your application (like Amazon or Flipkart) should run smoothly even if something goes wrong behind the scene. In this blog we will discuss few patterns to scale databases and improve data availability using AWS cloud.