What is OtterTune?
OtterTune is a platform designed to enhance the performance of Amazon RDS and Aurora databases by leveraging AI for optimization. It aims to make databases run faster and more efficiently while significantly reducing AWS costs. The service offers a 30-day free trial and is trusted across various industries for database optimization.
Key features of OtterTune include:
- AI-Driven Recommendations: OtterTune provides AI-based suggestions for configuring database settings, identifying unnecessary indexes, and optimizing SQL queries to boost performance and efficiency.
- Health Scores: The platform monitors databases, assigning scores based on best practices and optimizations to indicate the health of your database.
- Tuning Modes and Schedules: Users have control over how and when OtterTune applies its recommendations, with options for automatic or manual implementation and customizable schedules.
- Target Objectives: OtterTune allows users to set specific performance goals, such as query latency or CPU utilization, for their databases.
- Customizable Charts and Reports: The service offers detailed insights into database performance through customizable charts and reports, covering a wide range of metrics and objectives.
- Cost Reduction and Performance Increase: OtterTune focuses on improving database performance and reducing AWS costs without the need for extensive manual tuning or increased spending.
- Benchmark Success: OtterTune has demonstrated superior performance in benchmarks against Amazon RDS’s default settings and other tuning tools for both PostgreSQL and MySQL.