Migrating a 500 GB Production MariaDB Database from Amazon RDS to EC2, With a Rollback Path

I always enjoy real production stories where MariaDB is used in demanding environments and the people involved are willing to share the architecture, the challenges, and the decisions made along the way.

Pradip Shah from luroConnect recently documented how his team migrated a 500+ GB production MariaDB database from Amazon RDS to self-managed MariaDB on EC2.

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The database world grew up — notes from Percona Live Amsterdam

Last week I spent a few days in Amsterdam at Percona Live. It was the first Percona Live in Europe since before the pandemic, and you could feel it in the room: a slightly disbelieving happiness at simply being together again. Peter Zaitsev put it well when we sat down afterwards — nobody was quite sure what to expect, and it turned out to be a great event precisely because everyone had missed this.

Peter Zaitsev

I have been around since the early days of MySQL, long enough to have watched a good many people come and go.

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