Operational Benefits of having MySQL Database on Cloud
We could see almost this kind of topic everywhere in social/professional media nowadays explaining the real benefits and security checks and limitations for hosting the database on cloud.
I personally write down this article to exactly portrait the benefits to organisation especially how the operations can be made easier by hosting the databases on Cloud. Traditionally the role of DBA is to
- Perform regular health check of database
- Regular patching of database for enhanced performance and bug fixes
- Monitoring and performance analysis proactively
- Ensure regular backups and plan for DR
- Managing the database with regular day to day activities,
- Ensure security of data and smooth running of database.
When the technology starts growing there were lot of tools and techniques has been introduced to make the life of DBA's easier. DBA's eventually start managing the databases with the available tools and technology. Now the question comes here is, at this point of time where the databases are hosted on cloud which is the effective way to manage the database.
Today we could see the cloud is the right environment for any size of organisation to host their database. The cloud vendors are also pushing their business by providing multiple tools and techniques to end users to manage the databases on cloud. Already from organisation and management point of view there are lot of investments done on setting up the infra over cloud. Now as a technical expertise in every organisation they can easily make use of the tools and technology to manage the database without involving any dedicate DBA's for this. So we can conclude in current situation nobody likes to have dedicated experienced DBA's as most of the DBA jobs are completely automated, so they have some L1/L2 DBA to monitor and manage the database with the available tools and techniques. Even in some organisation the expert DBA's are having enough time so they are pushed to learn some other technology as they are highly paid resources and the talents are not utilised.
When we think why the organisation needs to retain the highly experienced DBA even when most of the jobs are automated, the only answer I got is To avoid big loss when something goes wrong at database level". Though it is not guaranteed when the concerned person is on vacation/holidays. The crazy thing about database is we do not know when the performance latch happens irrespective of the testing at the staging environment. As a solution for all this issues Mydbops team can support organisation with expert Remote DBA support for 24*7 so that the servers are monitored proactively, any abnormalities in the server performance will be alerted/notified and Mydbops expert DBA's can quickly get to the bottom of it to resolve the same. Mydbops as a Database Managed Service Provider company manages more than 300 servers in remote can be the best option for any organisation to invest least amount to avoid the server crash/downtime(365 days round the clock) instead of hiring the in-house DBA team to do the same.
"Exceeded all expectations! Mydbops team performed our migration in just 24 hours (where others had quoted this as a 2 - 4 week project). Their skill set, performance, quality, etc. are unmatched! We will be retaining this team for ongoing 24/7 server monitoring and support." - Anthony Peck, Astoria Company.