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Published inMay 2022
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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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Using Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor is a tool you can use to get real-time reports on all of your AWS services. Trusted Advisor will by default highlight the following areas:

  • Cost optimization—You will be given recommendations that can save you money. Typically, this will be downsizing an instance or changing a storage type if it isn't being used.
  • Performance—You will be advised on how to improve the performance of your applications or databases. For example, this may show when an RDS instance is running at a high central processing unit (CPU) or is suffering from high disk input/output (I/O).
  • Security—You will be able to see recommendations about security for your application and database, including security group configuration and patches that need to be applied.
  • Fault tolerance—Typically, Trusted Advisor will notify you if you are not using a Multi-Availability Zone (Multi-AZ) configuration for production workloads or if...
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Published in: May 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803243108

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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