Any one used: Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), as backend MySQL DB for Jira or Confluence?

[Gavin Fowler]

Hi I'm using Jira (4.3.3) / confluence (3.5.5) and I am considering deploying these installations into the Amazon cloud (AWS EC2) and away from my data centre. If I deploy to the cloud (EC2 AMI), I'm also thinking of using Relational Database Services (RDS). I'm wondering if anyone has any real life experience of this with either Jira / Confluence??

Thanks

Gavin.

[Tom Moors · Accepted solution]

Hi Gavin,

We use the same setup for our internal production instances, working fine I have to say!
Just take your time to construct a good setup, especially when a high uptime is necessary - a passive replicated service in an other zone/region might be something to keep in mind.

The RDS itself is a very pretty solution and we didn't encounter any database specific errors with our Atlassian tools.

Regards,

Tom

[Craig Gill]

So when moving an existing Jira/Confluence to Amazon EC2 / RDS what are the timezone considerations?

RDS only operates in UTC time, so I assume I would run my EC2 Jira/Confluence instance in my timezone and not UTC?

[Deleted user]

Oh, good question. Does anyone have an answer?

[Benny Chew]

No issues with our deployment as well (JIRA 5.0.3). The setup is similar to using a standard MySQL server.