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AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide

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
Languages
Author (1):
Kate Gawron Kate Gawron
Profile icon 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 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with CloudWatch

CloudWatch is the central monitoring and alerting repository for all AWS services. As such, it is extremely powerful and features many advanced tools and processes, which we do not need to know for the Database Specialty exam. However, given the usefulness of many of these additional features, there is a recommended book in the Further reading section for anyone wanting to know more beyond the scope of this chapter.

CloudWatch can be used to monitor any of your databases running within AWS, not just RDS. It can also be used to monitor databases running on-premises by installing the CloudWatch agent within your data center.

The main page of CloudWatch is Dashboards. You can create your own dashboards to show the metrics that are the most useful to you across all AWS services. For example, if you had an application running on EC2 with a load balancer and an RDS instance, you could create a dashboard that monitored the CPU and memory of the EC2 instances...

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