OtterTune

OtterTune is an AI-powered database optimization platform that observes your database's runtime metrics and then carries out machine learning to recommend and deploy configuration settings. It improves the performance, uptime, and efficiency of cloud-based PostgreSQL and MySQL databases (Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora). OtterTune acts as your database co-pilot, continually monitoring and optimizing on your behalf to increase performance, reduce AWS costs, and give you peace of mind.

• AI-Powered: OtterTune uses advanced AI technology to provide an unparalleled search engine for everything text.
• Automated Database Tuning: OtterTune automates the process of database performance optimization.
• Increased Performance: OtterTune increases performance up to 4x and reduces costs by 50%.

• Powerful Recommendations: OtterTune provides recommendations for setting configuration knobs, identifies superfluous indexes and anti-patterns on SQL queries to provide suggestions to improve database performance and efficiency.
• Health Scores: OtterTune monitors not only individual databases, but your entire fleet. It assigns an overall score tied to best practices and AI-based optimizations for your databases.
• Tuning Modes and Schedules: You control how and when OtterTune implements recommendations. OtterTune can automatically apply its recommended knob settings to databases on your behalf, with or without human approval.
• Target Objectives: OtterTune's AI allows you to optimize your databases for key performance metrics like query latency, query throughput, CPU utilization, and more.
• Customizable Charts and Reports: Visualize real-time data of 100+ target objectives, metrics, and knobs over custom time ranges.

OtterTune is particularly useful for companies looking to reduce database management costs and DBA overhead. It works for both on-premises and cloud-based database deployments (PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Amazon RDS).

OtterTune offers a 30-day free trial during which you’re able to connect up to 3 database instances to OtterTune. After the trial period, each database costs $550 monthly if paid monthly. Yearly subscriptions are discounted by 10% and cost $495 per month.

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Please note that the suitability of these alternatives would depend on your specific requirements.