Log buffer #543: a carnival of the vanities for DBAs

This Log Buffer Edition covers Cloud, Oracle and MySQL.

Cloud:

Building SaaS Services for AWS Customers with PrivateLink

Security of Cloud HSMBackups

Node.js 8.10 runtime now available in AWS Lambda

Azure Availability Zones now available for the most comprehensive resiliency strategy

Improvements to SQL Elastic Pool configuration experience

SQL Database: Long-term backup retention preview includes major updates

Oracle:

Question: Anything Wrong With Query Performance? (Straight To You)

Enterprise Manager and the disadvantages of WLS’ Dynamic Monitoring Service (lots of metricdump files)

Whitepaper Announcement: Migrating Oracle Database Workloads to Oracle Linux on AWS

Logging APEX Report Downloads

A look into oracle redo, part 9: commit

MySQL:

SQLyog MySQL GUI 13.0 Released

Hostname support in Group Replication Whitelist in 5.7!

Capacity Planning for MySQL and MariaDB – Dimensioning Storage Size

Leveraging ProxySQL with AWS Aurora to Improve Performance

MySQL 8.0: Statements Latency Histograms