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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

You're reading from  AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801075930
Pages 630 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Rajesh Daswani Rajesh Daswani
Profile icon Rajesh Daswani

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Cloud Concepts
2. Chapter 1: What Is Cloud Computing? 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to AWS and the Global Infrastructure 4. Chapter 3: Exploring AWS Accounts, Multi-Account Strategy, and AWS Organizations 5. Section 2: AWS Technologies
6. Chapter 4: Identity and Access Management 7. Chapter 5: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) 8. Chapter 6: AWS Networking Services – VPCs, Route53, and CloudFront 9. Chapter 7: AWS Compute Services 10. Chapter 8: AWS Database Services 11. Chapter 9: High Availability and Elasticity on AWS 12. Chapter 10: Application Integration Services 13. Chapter 11: Analytics on AWS 14. Chapter 12: Automation and Deployment on AWS 15. Chapter 13: Management and Governance on AWS 16. Section 3: AWS Security
17. Chapter 14: Implementing Security in AWS 18. Section 4: Billing and Pricing
19. Chapter 15: Billing and Pricing 20. Chapter 16: Mock Tests 21. Answers 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction to Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS offers traditional relational databases as fully managed services on the AWS platform. Ideal for transactional database requirements, also known as OLTP, AWS offers six different database engines, as follows:

  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MariaDB
  • Microsoft SQL server
  • Oracle
  • Amazon Aurora

Another term you might have heard of is Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). An RDBMS performs functions to create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) data from the database using an underlying software component, which we call the database engine.

An important point to understand here is that when you choose to set up an Amazon RDS database, you are setting up a database instance with a chosen engine to run on that instance. You can then create one or more databases supported by that engine on your database instance. This means you can have several databases running on an individual database instance.

Furthermore, on Amazon...

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