Introduction
Many applications use databases to store, retrieve, and organize data, so the type of database you choose and how you configure it have a big impact on the performance and availability of such a database-backed application.
In traditional infrastructure, organizations typically installed and configured their own database servers. For example, a business might use a Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle database to store customer information. It’s possible to build and run your own database servers in the cloud, but AWS offers another—and for many, better—option: managed database services.
With a managed database service, you use the AWS Management Console or AWS command line interface (CLI) to provision a database. AWS handles the installation and maintenance of the database software, as well as database backups and replication.
In this chapter, you’ll learn about the following three different managed database services provided by AWS:
- Relational database...
