The AWS Developers Podcast
Episode 149
Jan 24, 25 • 00:50:10
With Keyur Diwan, Principal Product Manager, AWS Relational Databases
In this episode, we talked with Keyur Diwan to dive deep into the concept of Blue-Green Deployment, particularly in the context of databases on AWS. We discuss the origins of this deployment strategy and how it has evolved to suit cloud environments. The conversation covers the benefits, challenges, and cost implications of implementing Blue-Green Deployment for stateful systems like databases, focusing on replication, schema changes, and the switchover process. Tune in to learn how Blue-Green Deployment can help reduce downtime, enhance database performance, and simplify change management, as well as explore future trends that aim to make this deployment model more robust and user-friendly.
Links
Here are the links to the tools, technologies, or articles we mentioned in this episode.
Doc: Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments overview
Amazon RDS Blue Green now allows performant storage switchover
Amazon RDS Blue Green now allows minor version update
Amazon RDS Blue Green now allows to shrink storage
Amazon RDS Blue Green now supports Postgres
The first podcast that talked about Amazon RDS Blue Green (03 March 2023)