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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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Overview of RDS

AWS RDS is a managed database service. What this means is that AWS offers a wrapper around a relational database that manages many of the functions that are normally carried out by a DBA. For example, RDS can take backups by default without the DBA needing to schedule them. RDS aims to reduce the amount of time a DBA spends doing day-to-day administration work, allowing them to focus on areas such as performance tuning.

To use RDS, you need to consider four things:

  • Which database type do I want?
  • How much compute (CPU and memory) do I need?
  • How much storage do I need?
  • Do I need to consider high availability or disaster recovery options?

With that information and the VPC that we built in Chapter 3, Understanding AWS Infrastructure, you can deploy an RDS that's ready to store the data for your application.

To be able to decide on these four questions, first, let's look at what databases RDS supports.

Supported databases

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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.
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