Intel VCPUs Improve Amazon Database Performance

Databases have powered websites, apps, and more for years, but organizations are facing an unprecedented amount of data from various sources

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While using a public cloud like Amazon Web Services (AWS) has benefits, choosing instances and configuring them may be difficult

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AWS’s huge selection of services and products can make choosing the correct database workload configuration difficult

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Quick overview of Amazon EC2 instance families. AWS has top-level instance categories depending on workload optimization

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M7i-flex instances reduce money but don’t guarantee maximum performance, while M5n instances increase network bandwidth caps

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They provide database benchmark results at various instance sizes to aid your decision

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The HammerDB database benchmark was used by Principled Technologies to test PostgreSQL

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Databases run better with greater memory, although tiny databases or replicated databases use less RAM For more details govindhtech.com

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