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RDS for Oracle and SQL Server Now Autoscale Additional Storage Volumes, Up to 256 TiB!

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Hi, it's Shii-chan! Today's update makes database capacity management easier!

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What was announced?

AWS What's New says Amazon RDS for SQL Server and Amazon RDS for Oracle now support RDS storage autoscaling on additional storage volumes!

RDS storage autoscaling automatically scales storage capacity in response to growing database workloads, with zero downtime.

The story so far

Additional storage volumes let you add up to three volumes and increase capacity up to 256 TiB. But until now, autoscaling could be enabled only on the primary volume, and you had to manually provision capacity on the additional volumes based on anticipated demand.

  • Under-provisioning could result in application downtime
  • Over-provisioning could result in under-utilized resources and higher costs

What changes

You just set your desired maximum storage limit for each additional volume, and autoscaling takes care of the rest. That means fewer outages and less waste from guessing capacity wrong!

Dive Deep

  • How it works: RDS continuously monitors actual storage consumption and scales capacity up automatically when utilization approaches provisioned capacity
  • Scope: works with new and existing database instances
  • Pricing: no additional charge for autoscaling, and you pay only for the provisioned storage
  • Enabling it: use the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or Amazon RDS API
  • Availability: all commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Wrap-up

  • Storage autoscaling now works on additional storage volumes
  • It applies to RDS for Oracle and RDS for SQL Server
  • Set a maximum per volume and capacity grows with zero downtime
  • No additional charge

This is for anyone running large Oracle or SQL Server databases on RDS who is tired of capacity planning!

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