Amazon users can now track their cloud-based databases with texts, email

Grazed from InforWorld. Author: Mikael Ricknäs.

Users of Amazon Web Services’ Relational Database Service (RDS) can now keep track of their databases with new notifications via email and SMS. Amazon’s Simple Notification Service (SNS) will give administrators a heads-up when their databases are running low on storage, have shut down, or a backup has started or finished. More than 40 types of notifications are available, Amazon said in a blog post on Monday.

Users can choose to receive different categories of notifications. For example, if administrators subscribe to the backup category for a given database instance, they will be notified whenever a backup-related event occurs, according to a support document published by Amazon. There are also notifications for availability and configuration changes. The notifications can be used with all three databases — MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server — that run on Amazon’s cloud using RDS, which is still being beta tested…

Email is supported in all regions, but SMS notifications are currently only available in the US East region, according to Amazon. The notifications are managed the using the RDS APIs, CLI or the AWS Management Console. The latter’s navigation pane contains a new item for DB Event Subscriptions…

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