MySQL on AWS: The Observability Gap Between RDS and EC2

Daniel Guzman Burgos
Senior DBA · AlphaPoint
Session Overview
Daniel Guzman Burgos explores the hidden observability challenges when running MySQL on AWS. Learn the key differences between Amazon RDS and self-managed MySQL on EC2, where monitoring falls short, and how to gain deeper visibility into your database performance.
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