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

Product type Book

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803243108

Pages 472 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Author (1):

Kate Gawron

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

23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Cheat sheet

This cheat sheet summarizes the key points from this chapter:

AWS RDS is a managed database service for the MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MariaDB relational database engines.
RDS uses endpoints for connections so that you do not need to configure your application connection strings after a failover.
RDS automates many of the daily administrative functions that are typically carried out by a DBA. These include backups, log rotation, patching the operating system and database, and autoscaling storage.
You can take manual backups called snapshots, which can be used to create copies of your database in different regions or a different account if they are shared.
RDS supports encryption at rest and can enforce encrypted traffic between the client and the database using SSL/TLS.
Using a multi-AZ deployment will greatly reduce any downtime during a database failure, upgrade, or maintenance period that requires the instance to be restarted...