You need to maintain your critical business applications, and moving to the cloud is one way to cost-effectively scale application data without draining resources.

However, one of the biggest roadblocks to maintaining application performance is the database, and how it is impacted by increasing workloads.

This solution brief outlines setting up MySQL Amazon RDS instances to meet growing needs, and details a proven, standard, RDS architecture that is easy to set-up, with automated failover and basic business continuity components.