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Published inJun 2023
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Mark Avdi
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Mark Avdi is an Engineer, Solutions Architect and currently the CTO of Westpoint Software Solutions. He has gained his invaluable experience through decades of coding programs, designing software, and managing complex cloud infrastructures in multiple industries with different sets of challenges using a variety of solutions. Mark is a technologist; he keeps up with the trends and believes in the power of technology as an ultimate tool to help businesses prosper and tackle problems our world currently faces.
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Leo Lam

Leo Lam is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and the COO of Westpoint Software Solutions. While having detailed knowledge of the vast array of services AWS currently provides, he maintains the close relationship between AWS & Westpoint as partners. Leo comes from a sporting background and uses his experience to effectively integrate the dynamics of sporting philosophy into day-to-day software development to build teams and workflows that constantly deliver.
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MySQL powered by AWS RDS

In this chapter, as well as teaching you about Route 53, DNS, and certificates, we’ve also changed our main database to MySQL hosted on AWS’s Relational Database Service (RDS).

Let’s assume that you currently run a website with a MySQL database, and this book has inspired you to move to AWS and write your infrastructure code with AWS CDK. At some point, you are going to have to do a database migration. There are plenty of ways to do this with AWS, with the most complete solution being with AWS Database Migration Service.

Keeping with the theme of simplicity and giving you the tools to tackle infrastructure problems with AWS CDK, let’s go with the simplest scenario, which would essentially be an exported .sql from your current database. That said, our plan is pretty evolved and advanced and should cover most types of database migrations.

If you look in the infrastructure/lib/constructs/RDS/init directory, you will see one...

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Mark Avdi

Mark Avdi is an Engineer, Solutions Architect and currently the CTO of Westpoint Software Solutions. He has gained his invaluable experience through decades of coding programs, designing software, and managing complex cloud infrastructures in multiple industries with different sets of challenges using a variety of solutions. Mark is a technologist; he keeps up with the trends and believes in the power of technology as an ultimate tool to help businesses prosper and tackle problems our world currently faces.
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Leo Lam

Leo Lam is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and the COO of Westpoint Software Solutions. While having detailed knowledge of the vast array of services AWS currently provides, he maintains the close relationship between AWS & Westpoint as partners. Leo comes from a sporting background and uses his experience to effectively integrate the dynamics of sporting philosophy into day-to-day software development to build teams and workflows that constantly deliver.
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