Cheat sheet

This cheat sheet summarizes the key points from this chapter:

• AWS RDS is a managed database service for the MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MariaDB relational database engines.
• RDS uses endpoints for connections so that you do not need to configure your application connection strings after a failover.
• RDS automates many of the daily administrative functions that are typically carried out by a DBA. These include backups, log rotation, patching the operating system and database, and autoscaling storage.
• You can take manual backups called snapshots, which can be used to create copies of your database in different regions or a different account if they are shared.
• RDS supports encryption at rest and can enforce encrypted traffic between the client and the database using SSL/TLS.
• Using a multi-AZ deployment will greatly reduce any downtime during a database failure, upgrade, or maintenance period that requires the instance to be restarted...