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Performance and scaling of the Amazon-managed MySQL, Relational Data Store (RDS): Scaling options: Horizontal scaling Sharding (distribute data [tables or rows] among multiple RDS instances; Tumblr uses sharded MySQL and it worked well for them) – there is no explicit support so the applications have to handle it themselves, i.e. know which table/rows to read fromContinue reading “Link: Benchmark and Scaling of Amazon RDS (MySQL)”