This post is the second in a series of two dedicated to Amazon RDS consolidation. In the first post, we discussed the challenges, opportunities, and solution patterns for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) consolidation. In this post, we introduce RDS Consolidator, a practical tool designed to optimize Amazon RDS database consolidation.
Introduction to RDS Consolidator
RDS Consolidator is an open source tool designed to help DBAs and solution architects in their Amazon RDS database consolidation efforts. RDS Consolidator is experimental, not officially supported by Amazon Web Services (AWS), and is provided as-is.
You can use RDS Consolidator to create database cohorts and calculate the amount of CPU, memory, IOPS and storage resources needed to run a stacked environment.
Implementation considerations
RDS Consolidator is based on two components: a data collection script and an Amazon Quick Sight dashboard that runs entirely in…
