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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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Cheat sheet

This cheat sheet reminds you of the high-level topics and points covered in this chapter and should act as a revision guide and refresher:

  • Amazon Aurora is a managed database service created by AWS that offers a database compatible with MySQL or PostgreSQL.
  • An Aurora cluster features reader and writer instances with their own endpoints, allowing you to split your application workload between reads and writes.
  • You do not define the storage capacity for Aurora as it can scale instantaneously and automatically. You also do not need to define any Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) or throughput as you always get the maximum available with any Aurora instance or storage size.
  • You can have up to 15 reader instances in any one cluster, but only one writer instance.
  • Aurora automates many of the daily administrative functions typically carried out by a DBA. These include backups, log rotation, and patching of the operating system and database, and...
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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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