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Improving connection to amazon RDS from EC2

Connecting to a local database on the same EC2 instance has a low latency, but to RDS things get really high. See results below. time mysql -u root -proot -h localhost -e 'show databases' +---------...
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2 votes
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MySQL connection on Amazon RDS t2.small performing very slow

I'm very new to AWS. I've created a new RDS instance t2.small by following the previous one. I've selected all options as similar with the previous one. But the new instance is performing very slow, ...
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11 votes
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How to move RDS database to different VPC

I didn't select a VPC when creating a MySQL RDS database, so it created it inside an auto-generated "default" VPC. I'm now unable to add it to any of my pre-defined security groups, or access it from ...
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Can Amazon Elastic Beanstalk auto-scale Amazon RDS?

I'm planning to run a PHP/MySQL application using Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. In the settings I can define when it should launch new instances automatically (Auto-Scaling). However, as I understand ...
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Easy GUI way to auto scale EC2 and RDS: aws console, scalr, ylastic...?

I am managing all my instances with the AWS Management Console (the GUI web console) but now I want to use Auto Scale and it seems that this can not be done with that console. Yes, there is CloudWatch ...
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6 votes
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AWS EC2 dns resolution diagnostic

I am using EC2 instances with amazon linux installed (with amazon dns server settings, which comes from DHCP), as well as an RDS database. The EC2 instances are behind ELB and get high traffic. The ...
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Amazon RDS instance stopped responding

We've been running a large RDS instance in production for over year without a single moment of downtime. Recently, with a bigger budget and higher stakes, we decided to convert it to a multi-AZ ...
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