Atlassian Migrated 4 Million Postgres Databases To Shrink Aws Bill

Asia In Brief Australian collaborationware company Atlassian has migrated the four million Postgres databases that back its customers’ Jira implementations to Amazon Web Services’ Aurora.

Atlassian’s principal site reliability engineer Pat Rubis last week revealed the migration in a post that explains the company runs one database for each Jira customer and ran them “across about 3,000 PostgreSQL servers in 13 AWS regions worldwide.”

Rubis explained that most Atlassian customers’ databases ran AWS RDS for PostgreSQL on shared infrastructure, and that the company uses Aurora PostgreSQL for certain very large customers.

“In late 2023 we started exploring a potential project to replatform the remainder of the Jira database fleet also to Aurora PostgreSQL in order to achieve some bold cost, reliability, and performance objectives,” Rubis wrote, before explaining that Atlassian felt the move would allow it to reduce the size of its AWS instances by half, move from the 99.95 percent uptime SLA on RDS to the 99.99 percent available for Aurora, and gain access to better autoscaling facilities.

Rubis’s post details Atlassian’s migration process, and reveals that the company switched its instance size from m5.4xlarge on RDS to r6.2xlarge on Aurora. “We kept the same memory size, but reduced the number (and type) of CPUs,” he wrote.

“Although the path was long and technically challenging, we achieved our ambitious cost-saving target and improved our reliability and performance in doing so,” he concluded.

Samsung reportedly pauses US chipmaking plans

Japanese outlet Nikkei last week reported that Samsung delayed completion of a plant in Texas as it has been unable to find customers for the products it planned to build there.

Nikkei claimed that chip buyers cooled on the products Samsung planned to make in Texas, and the Korean giant therefore didn’t install chipmaking equipment while it figures out what its customers want.

The Wall Street Journal last week reported Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC planned to delay work on plants in Japan and Germany to focus on its extensive investments in the USA. TSMC denied the report and said its US activities won’t impact its investment plans in other countries.

Infosys clamps down on over-work

Indian tech services giant Infosys has reportedly written to employees with a warning not to work more than nine hours and 15 minutes each day.

The company reportedly monitors employee hours and is keen to prevent burn-out, a position at odds with company founder Narayana Murthy’s call for Indians to work 70 hour weeks.

Qantas promises to reveal impact of attack

Australian airline Qantas, which last week admitted to a cyberattack that exposed records describing six million customers, says it will soon detail the impact of the incident.

A Friday update reveals the airline “has not been contacted by anyone claiming to have the data” and that it believes it has plugged the gap in its security that led to the intrusion.

The company said it has “increased resourcing in our contact centres and have a dedicated support line to support our customers” and implemented “Additional security measures … to further restrict access and strengthen system monitoring and detection.”

It also promised to inform customers “on the types of their personal data that was contained in the system” this week.

Lexmark’s Chinese owner sells to Xerox

Xerox last week announced it completed the acquisition of printer-maker Lexmark from Ninestar Corporation, PAG Asia Capital, and Shanghai Shouda Investment Centre.

A consortium that included Ninestar acquired Lexmark in 2016 but in 2023 the USA sanctioned the Chinese company for using forced labor to create its products. That meant Lexmark struggled to sell into the USA.

A deal valued at $1.5 billion saw Xerox acquire Lexmark and proclaim the transaction will strengthen its product portfolio and “build a broader global print and managed print services business better suited to meet the evolving needs of clients in the hybrid workplace.”

India, Australia, work to track underwater drones

The governments of India and Australia last week announced a joint research initiative aimed at improving both nations’ ability to track submarines and autonomous underwater vehicles.

A three-year project will see the nations’ defense research agencies explore using arrays of hydrophones towed behind ships to improve underwater surveillance.

JPMorgan Chase binning custom TLDs

China’s Ministry of Information Technology last week announced that JPMorgan Chase Asia Consulting Beijing has applied to terminate operation of the top-level domains “.CHASE” and “.JPMORGAN”.

We sought comment from JPMorgan Chase but did not receive a response, so cannot report why the financial services organization wants to bin its custom domains.

China’s asteroid probe sends Blue Marble pics

China’s National Space Administration (CNSA) last week published images of the Earth and Moon captured by its Tianwen 2 probe as it hurtles towards Asteroid 2016HO3.

CNSA said the probe was 12 million kilometers from Earth as of July 1st, and took the snaps below when it was 590,000 kilometers from our planet.

Images of Earth and Luna captured by China’s Tianwen 2 probe from a distance of 590,000km – Click to enlarge

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