Summary
In this chapter, we have explored several backup and recovery technologies and philosophies, such as RTO and RPO, the use of maintenance windows. We learned how we can use AWS Backup to create backup policies and rules that can be applied across all of our databases to ensure consistency and adherence to required data retention policies.
The AWS Certified Database – Specialty exam will ask questions about the required configuration to meet a specific RTO/RPO need, and you will need to know the recovery times offered for different databases, specifically RDS and DynamoDB. In the next chapter, we will learn about troubleshooting tools and techniques you can use to resolve issues on your AWS database.
