2. AWS database solutions and open sources
by Alessandra Bilardi - Data Specialist @ pixartprinting.it
28.03.2019 - CloudConf
3. • Pixartprinting S.p.A.
• Where: Quarto d’Altino, Venezia
• Type: Web2Print of Cimpress group
• Clients: 750.000
• Employees: 750
• Company surface: 35.000 MQ
• Work jobs in a day: 10.000
• Packages sent in 1 year: 3M
• Countries reached: +50
• Product combinations: 3M
• VMs on premise: +200
• DynamoDB: +100
• Lambda: +500
• RDS: +50
Who we are
6. • RDS
• ElastiCache
• Redshift
• MongoDB Atlas
Who is who?
From https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/maximizing-mongodb-performance-on-aws
7. • Amazon Aurora
• Amazon Neptune
• Amazon DocumentDB
Who is who?
Revisited from https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/introducing-the-aurora-storage-engine
8. • High availability
• Auto scaling | Change Size / Type
• Monitoring & Alarm
• Backup & Restore
• Free Tier
What does it mean to work on the cloud?
9. • High availability
• Auto scaling | Change Size / Type
• Monitoring & Alarm
• Backup & Restore
• Free Tier
• Pay attention to
• GDPR
• Pricing
• Compatibility & Limits
• Design
• Documentation
What does it mean to work on the cloud?
10. • High availability
• Auto scaling | Change Size / Type
• Monitoring & Alarm
• Backup & Restore
• Free Tier
• Pay attention to
• GDPR
• Pricing
• Compatibility & Limits
• Design
• Documentation
Open discussion: why shouldn’t you move to the cloud?