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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 5: Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It has many similarities to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), which we learned about in the previous chapter, but it also has many exclusive features. Aurora is a major topic within the AWS Certified Database – Specialty exam and as it features many of the same technologies as RDS it is highly recommended that you study Chapter 4, Relational Database Service, before this one.

In this chapter, we will learn about Amazon Aurora's architecture and how it differs from RDS, how we can achieve high availability and design Aurora to allow rapid disaster recovery, and we'll learn about some advanced options and features that only exist within Aurora.

This chapter includes a hands-on lab where we will deploy, configure, and explore an Aurora cluster, including how we can monitor it.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main...

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