We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
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We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
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Re: We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
#2I'm quite negatively surprised that a government service is moving from their own platform to AWS for such an important service.
Re: We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
#3I'm quite negatively surprised that a government service is moving from their own platform to AWS for such an important service.
And an American one, at that (we’re talking government services here, not some SaaS). Are there really no native UK cloud providers?
Re: We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
#4I'm quite negatively surprised that a government service is moving from their own platform to AWS for such an important service.
I don't know what it's like in UK but it may be the case that government has a hard time a{ttract,fford}ing talent to administer everything in house. Not that AWS is great for cost saving but if its between paying 50k/year for cloud services and not being able to find an engineer who will competently do the job for less than 50k, then the cloud is your only move really.
Re: We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
#5I'm quite negatively surprised that a government service is moving from their own platform to AWS for such an important service.
GOV.UK PaaS also runs on AWS (for as long as it remains to exist)
Re: We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
#6I'm quite negatively surprised that a government service is moving from their own platform to AWS for such an important service.
All UK businesses run on Oracle and Microsoft, so I'm not sure why you're surprised. They have us by the balls.
Re: We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
#7I'm quite negatively surprised that a government service is moving from their own platform to AWS for such an important service.
> This is an AWS RDS PostgreSQL database and it lives in the PaaS’ AWS account. Our apps that run in the PaaS talk to this database. We are going to call this database our ‘source database’.
It already was. Read the article.
Re: We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
#8I'm quite negatively surprised that a government service is moving from their own platform to AWS for such an important service.
And an American one, at that (we’re talking government services here, not some SaaS). Are there really no native UK cloud providers?
Not any remotely comparable. The small “cloud” providers we do have were just reselling vSphere last time I looked into it.
Re: We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
#9I'm quite negatively surprised that a government service is moving from their own platform to AWS for such an important service.
AWS has a lot of pre-audited compliance built into their services. Being able to inherit their certification for services can save an organization a lot of time and effort.
Re: We migrated our PostgreSQL database with 11 seconds downtime
#10I'm quite negatively surprised that a government service is moving from their own platform to AWS for such an important service.
I'd argue that AWS is much better suited than self-hosting because it's such an important service.
Downtime becomes negligible and global reach vastly increases with comparably little cost.