diff --git a/knowledge base/cloud computing/aws/rds.md b/knowledge base/cloud computing/aws/rds.md index b2a25e3..6b7b868 100644 --- a/knowledge base/cloud computing/aws/rds.md +++ b/knowledge base/cloud computing/aws/rds.md @@ -99,6 +99,13 @@ One can choose any of the following retention periods for instances' Performance - _n_ months, where n is a number from 1 to 24.
In CLI and IaC, this number must be _n*31_. +Each and every DB instance has a 30-minutes weekly maintenance window defining when modifications and software patching +occur. Should it not be defined during creation, one will be assigned automatically at random from the default time +block for the region.
+If any maintenance event is scheduled before the window, it's **initiated** in that time frame. Most maintenance events +complete during the 30-minute maintenance window, while larger events may take more.
+Maintenance windows are paused when their DB instances are stopped. + ## Engine ### PostgreSQL @@ -114,10 +121,10 @@ enhance performance depending on the engine selected and the amount of storage r | DB engine | Storage size | Number of volumes provisioned | | -------------------------------- | ----------------- | ----------------------------- | -| Db2 | Less than 400 GiB | 1 | -| Db2 | 400 to 65,536 GiB | 4 | | MariaDB
MySQL
PostgreSQL | Less than 400 GiB | 1 | | MariaDB
MySQL
PostgreSQL | 400 to 65,536 GiB | 4 | +| Db2 | Less than 400 GiB | 1 | +| Db2 | 400 to 65,536 GiB | 4 | | Oracle | Less than 200 GiB | 1 | | Oracle | 200 to 65,536 GiB | 4 | | SQL Server | Any | 1 | @@ -211,7 +218,7 @@ require more time than allotted to the backup window, they will continue after t Backups are retained for up to 35 days (_backup retention period_).
One can recover DB instances to **any** point in time that sits inside the backup retention period. -The backup window can't overlap with the weekly maintenance window for DB instance or Multi-AZ DB cluster.
+The backup window **must not overlap** with the weekly maintenance window for DB instance or Multi-AZ DB cluster.
During automatic backup windows storage I/O might be suspended briefly while the backup process initializes. Initialization typically takes up to a few seconds. One might also experience elevated latencies for a few minutes during backups for Multi-AZ deployments.
@@ -714,6 +721,7 @@ Solution: reboot the source and target instance and retry. - [Backing up login roles aka users and group roles] - [Renaming a DB instance] - [Amazon RDS DB instances] +- [Maintaining a DB instance]