https://www.puppeteers.net/tags/rds/ Recent content in Rds on Puppeteers Oy Hugo en-US Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.puppeteers.net/blog/how-to-reduce-rds-storage-size-in-an-automated-way/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.puppeteers.net/blog/how-to-reduce-rds-storage-size-in-an-automated-way/ <p><img src="https://puppeteers-public.hel1.your-objectstorage.com/pexels-jakub-zerdzicki-16978372.jpg" alt=""></p> <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>Amazon RDS is a relational database service available on Amazon Web Services. It is essentially a managed database server with a volume for the data. Both cost money. Having a large dataset is not the only reason have big volume: the volume size determines the number of I/O operations (IOPS) the volume can do. If you have high load on your RDS instance you may very well run out of IOPS which can result in a disaster. Scaling up the volume size is easy to avoid such disasters, but it is much more difficult to reduce RDS storage size. This is because downsizing RDS storage size <a href="https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/rds-db-storage-size">is not officially supported by AWS</a>. If the load on your RDS instance goes down (e.g. due to refactoring), you may end up having a database with an oversized volume that costs lots of money for no reason.</p>