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  • Migrating 50 Production Databases to Aurora with Under 3 Minutes of Downtime

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    AwsDatabaseTerraformCloud

    Over about two years, we migrated around 50 production databases from on-premises MySQL to AWS Aurora. The largest were multi-terabyte, tier-0 systems with 24/7 write traffic. Most cutovers took under 3 minutes of downtime. That number is not the …

    Over about two years, we migrated around 50 production databases from on-premises MySQL to AWS Aurora. The largest were multi-terabyte, tier-0 systems with 24/7 write traffic. Most cutovers took under 3 minutes of downtime. That number is not the …

  • 20+ AWS Services in One terraform apply — Built for the New Free Plan

    In Writing 2026 words 10 min

    TerraformAwsIacCloud

    AWS’s new free plan comes with $200 in credits ($100 base + $100 bonus) — but only if you activate each activity individually. Most people don’t. I almost didn’t. The first time I spun up an ElastiCache cluster for a personal project, I picked …

    AWS’s new free plan comes with $200 in credits ($100 base + $100 bonus) — but only if you activate each activity individually. Most people don’t. I almost didn’t. The first time I spun up an ElastiCache cluster for a personal project, I picked …