MySQL offers native support for connecting via SSL. By default this is available in AWS RDS MySQL instances. Using this connection method effectively encrypts all data going back and forth between the client and the server. This prevents eavesdropping (aka … Continue reading
Ran a very specific benchmark of MySQL – the native SSL connection performance penalty on AWS RDS. When establishing a MySQL connection there is a way to tell the server to use SSL to encrypt the communication between the client … Continue reading
MySQL benchmark of AWS RDS vs EC2 with complete results and instructions on how to recreate on your own for under $0.25. Update 9/15/2013 – Added bar charts to compliment tables. I found a couple blog posts with benchmark data … Continue reading
