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

You're reading from   AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide A comprehensive guide to becoming an AWS Certified Database specialist

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243108
Length 472 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS
2. Chapter 1: AWS Certified Database – Specialty Overview FREE CHAPTER 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

Chapter 6: Amazon DynamoDB

In this chapter, we are going to look at the first of the NoSQL databases that AWS offers, DynamoDB. DynamoDB is a major topic in the AWS Certified Database – Specialty exam, and for a large number of Database Administrators (DBAs) who have come from a relational database background, it can be one of the most difficult to understand given how differently it works to a SQL database.

This chapter will include hands-on labs where we will deploy, configure, and explore a DynamoDB table, and we will spend some time learning how to interact with a DynamoDB table using code. DynamoDB does not require a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to be deployed in.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:

  • Overview of DynamoDB
  • Querying and scanning a
  • DynamoDB table
  • Working with DynamoDB records
  • Understanding consistency modes
  • Understanding high availability and backups
  • Understanding DynamoDBadvanced features
  • ...
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