SQLBits 2024
When to Wave Off Landing Data in PaaS Services
Get beyond the marketing hype, and learn about the costs, benefits, and problems with PaaS solutions. You will learn when they are the right choice, and when they can trap you into a suboptimal architecture.
PaaS solutions are often praised as being “the right way to do cloud”, and for a lot of organizations there can be many benefits to using those solutions. They typically include managed backups, built-in high availability, and automating updating with minimal downtime. However, PaaS solutions are not all sunshine and rainbows—especially if your workload is approaching the limits of a particular service tier. In this session you will learn about a variety of PaaS offerings, but focus areas will include:
• Database as a service offerings like Amazon RDS, Managed instance, and Azure SQL DB
• PaaS pricing and scaling models and how they impact architectural decisions
• The cost/benefit analysis of how to choose a PaaS offering for you application.
PaaS solutions can also cost a lot more than a similar VM solution, and your options for growth may be limited. However, for many applications, you may see benefit from reducing management overhead, especially for less critical services. Learn from two experts who have seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of PaaS database services.
• Database as a service offerings like Amazon RDS, Managed instance, and Azure SQL DB
• PaaS pricing and scaling models and how they impact architectural decisions
• The cost/benefit analysis of how to choose a PaaS offering for you application.
PaaS solutions can also cost a lot more than a similar VM solution, and your options for growth may be limited. However, for many applications, you may see benefit from reducing management overhead, especially for less critical services. Learn from two experts who have seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of PaaS database services.
