Looking to get up and running in the cloud, and start building applications with MariaDB as fast as possible? In this session, Thomas Boyd walks through the quick-start process of deploying MariaDB in the most popular public clouds. He then touches on some of the essential differences between cloud database services, helping you to create the cloud database strategy that best meets your needs.

1. MARIADB Cloud
Choices for
Developers
Thomas Boyd
Director, Technical Marketing
MariaDB Corporation

2. Agenda
● Define your Requirements
● AWS MariaDB Options
● Other Public Cloud Providers
○ Microsoft Azure
○ Google Cloud
○ Alibaba
○ Rackspace
● MariaDB Managed Services Offerings
● Containers, Kubernetes and the future of Cloud

3. Define your
Requirements

4. What’s Important
● Application Interface(s)
○ SQL Support
○ Integrations
● Scale and Performance
● High Availability
● Security
● Support
For for Dev Environments?
For for Prod Environments?
For for Test/QA Environments?

5. Which Edition meets Requirements?
MariaDB
Server
MariaDB
Enterprise
Server
MariaDB
Platform
Proprietary
Pretenders

6. What Configuration(s)?
● Master/Slave
● Multi-Master Clustering
● Storage Engines
● Encryption settings
● Multi-zone

7. You have a lot of power at your fingertips!
vs

8. Shared and Sandbox Environments

9. AWS Aurora & RDS

10. Bait and Switch: Aurora != MariaDB

11. RDS MariaDB means paying MORE
Instance Type EC2 Price RDS Price Increase
m5.large $0.096 $0.171 78%
m5.xlarge $0.192 $0.342 78%
m5.2xlarge $0.384 $0.684 78%
m5.4xlarge $0.768 $1.368 78%
m5.12xlarge $2.304 $4.104 78%
m5.24xlarge $4.608 $8.208 78%
Provisioned
IOPS $0.065 $0.100 54%

12. RDS MariaDB means getting LESS
● No access to machine/vm tuning
● Limited access to changing DB configuration parameters
● No access to more advanced instance types
● Delayed access to recent releases
● Performance degradation at higher levels of concurrency
● No multi-master MariaDB Cluster
● No advanced proxy, db firewall
● No access to expert DB support

13. Why do People choose RDS (and Aurora)
● Easy of Setup and Operations
○ Wizard driven creation
○ Wizard driven backup and restore
● Perceived headcount savings

14. Use AWS for IaaS
● Excellent selection and pricing of instances
● Most mature networking and storage options
● Easy to provision

15. How to get Running on EC2
● AMI Marketplace is a mess!
● Provision EC2 machine(s) required for cluster
○ Provisioned IOPS?
○ Local storage?
● Pull MariaDB from Official Repositories
● Follow MariaDB Knowledge Base install and setup instructions
Cloudformation and/or saved AMIs for repeatability

16. Secure your Instance
● Use Amazon Security Groups for 3306 AND 22
● Configure and use SSL
● Password protect all account
● RBAC
Cloudformation and/or saved AMIs for repeatability

17. Other Public Cloud
Providers

18. Other Public Cloud Providers
● Microsoft Azure
● Google Cloud
● Alibaba
● Rackspace

19. MariaDB Corporation
Managed Services

20. MariaDB Platform Managed Service
“White glove” Service providing full MariaDB Platform
● Performance audits
● Performance tuning
● Query optimization
● Schema changes
● Database upgrades
● Database migration
● Reference architecture design
● Database installation
● Database configuration
● Backup configuration
● Database recovery
● Security audits

21. MariaDB SkySQL and CloudTrail
● MariaDB Server
● Self-Service
● Kubernetes-based
● Moving to Beta in summer

22. Q&A

23. Thank You