October Newsletter: Amazon RDS

We love Amazon RDS. It’s powerful, flexible, and easily customizable. But if you don’t optimize your RDS properly, you are at high risk of getting a large bill at the end of the month. ??

The good news – it doesn’t have to be that way! We are here to help you unleash the full potential of Amazon RDS implementation.

The Topic of the Month - Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS remains one of Amazon’s most popular services. But not many know how to optimize the Amazon AWS implementation. Luckily for you, we’ve gathered best practices to help you optimize Amazon RDS that can take your implementation to the next level. ??

AWS News

The latest AWS news we thought you should know about. ????

• AWS Activate?Program is?now open?to any self-identified startup. Get instant access to personalized tools, resources, and content tailored to your startup’s needs!
• Amazon Aurora Serverless?v2?supports AWS CloudFormation. Now you can use AWS CloudFormation Templates to deploy and change the database along with the rest of your infrastructure.
• AWS Config?now supports?15 new resource types! With this launch, you can use AWS Config to monitor configuration data for the supported resource types in your AWS account, and you can see how the configuration changes.
• Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager?– You can now?automatically archive Amazon EBS snapshots?to save up to 75% on storage costs for those EBS snapshots you intend to retain for more than 90 days and access rarely.
• AWS Compute Optimizer?now provides cost and performance optimization recommendations for?37 new EC2 instance types and new memory metrics for Windows instances.

Cloudvisor News

The time has come to announce a new chapter in our history! ???We’re expanding our business to the United States.????? As of the 18th of October, we’re an American company registered in Delaware.

We’re excited to help American startups grow and scale with AWS! ??

Piece of advice from the CS team

AWS Startup Loft Accelerator?-?take advantage of a helping hand from AWS! AWS Startup Loft Accelerator aims to provide early-stage startups with technology, product development, go-to-market advice, and getting you funding ready. The program allows you to set your own pace and get guidance from technology experts. Oh, and you can receive up to $25k in AWS credits. Make sure you check it out!

Did You Know?

AWS Database Plug & Play Program?is another AWS initiative that helps you migrate from self-managed databases to fully managed relational and non-relational database engines on AWS. Get $2,000 AWS Credits for your new Database workload, plus AWS advisory time, architecture & prototyping patterns, and pathways to Go-to-Market acceleration programs.

Cloudvisor Customer News?

Here’s what our customers have to share with you this month:

• ANote Music?made it to the Grand Finale of the Startup World Cup and is among the?top 10 startups in the world! Congratulations. ?? We’re proud to work with the best of the best!
• Fractory, one of Estonia’s famed high-growth startup businesses, is?expanding across the United States!?We're thrilled to see you grow.???

Open Positions

We’re growing fast, and we want you on the journey with us! Join our international team on our journey to help startups grow and scale through the power of AWS! Together, we will shape the future of AWS solutions. ?? Become a part of the Cloudvisor family today! ??

• AWS Partnership Manager
• Sales Manager (Engineering Services)
• Tech Lead
• Senior DevOps

Don’t see the role you were looking for? That’s OK - we’re adding new roles all the time!?Follow us on LinkedIn?to stay connected. ??

Best regards,?

Team Cloudvisor