You're reading from AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide

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Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803243108

Pages 472 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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IT Certification

Author (1):

Kate Gawron

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS

2. Chapter 1: AWS Certified Database – Specialty Overview

3. Chapter 2: Understanding Database Fundamentals

4. Chapter 3: Understanding AWS Infrastructure

5. Part 2: Workload-Specific Database Design

6. Chapter 4: Relational Database Service

7. Chapter 5: Amazon Aurora

8. Chapter 6: Amazon DynamoDB

9. Chapter 7: Redshift and DocumentDB

10. Chapter 8: Neptune, Quantum Ledger Database, and Timestream

11. Chapter 9: Amazon ElastiCache

12. Part 3: Deployment and Migration and Database Security

13. Chapter 10: The AWS Schema Conversion Tool and AWS Database Migration Service

14. Chapter 11: Database Task Automation

15. Chapter 12: AWS Database Security

16. Part 4: Monitoring and Optimization

17. Chapter 13: CloudWatch and Logging

18. Chapter 14: Backup and Restore

19. Chapter 15: Troubleshooting Tools and Techniques

20. Part 5: Assessment

21. Chapter 16: Exam Practice

22. Chapter 17: Answers

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Understanding AWS automation

AWS offers a wide range of automation tools that you can use to achieve different things. Some of the tools specialize in working with application functionality, while some are used with containers. Containers are self-contained modules in which an application can be deployed, along with all the dependencies needed to run it, such as a Java runtime environment. Containers are not covered within the Database Specialty exam, but there is a link about this in the Further reading section if you'd like to know more.

First, let's look at a tool we have used previously in this book – the AWS command-line interface (AWS CLI).

AWS command-line interface (AWS CLI)

The AWS CLI is a command-line tool you can download from AWS. It runs on Windows, macOS, and most Linux distributions. Once downloaded, installed, and configured, the AWS CLI allows you to interact with AWS services using text-based commands. The CLI is very powerful and can be...