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Dr. Logan Song
Dr. Logan Song
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Dr. Logan Song

Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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Amazon RDS

RDS is a fully managed relational database service provided by Amazon in the cloud. With RDS, AWS provides a few popular relational database management systems as a service, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MariaDB.

Amazon RDS is a managed service. There are different ways to create a database, such as MySQL, in the cloud. One is provisioning an EC2 instance and installing a database management system (DBMS) on the instance, and then creating databases, tables, and so on. This is an unmanaged approach since you will have to take care of all the administrative tasks such as database scaling, high availability, disaster recovery, and so on. Another is using cloud-managed services to provision a database where AWS will handle the mundane and time-consuming tasks such as hardware provisioning, software installation, backup and recovery, patching, scaling, and so on. Managed services allow users to focus on their applications and data without worrying about...

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Dr. Logan Song

Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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