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Kate Gawron
Kate Gawron
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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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In this chapter, we have learned about Trusted Advisor and used it to help identify security configuration problems, wrongly sized RDS instances, and RDS servers that need to be patched. We then looked at some best practices for troubleshooting RDS, DynamoDB, and other AWS-managed databases, including how to use the database logs, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Health Dashboard to identify problems. Finally, we looked at how you can resolve some common problems and error messages from AWS-managed databases.

The AWS Certified Database – Specialty exam will have many questions about troubleshooting errors with connectivity, storage issues, performance bottlenecks, and excessive costs, so being able to understand best-practice methods to diagnose and resolve them will greatly improve your chances of success in the exam.

In the next chapter, we will be completing a practice exam so that you can learn the style of the AWS exam questions. You will also be able to note...

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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
Read more about Kate Gawron