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

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803243108

Length 472 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

IT Certification

Author (1):

Kate Gawron

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

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

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Overview of the Amazon Aurora service

Amazon Aurora is a managed database service. This means that AWS offers a wrapper around a relational database that handles many of the functions normally carried out by a Database Administrator (DBA). Where Aurora differs from RDS is that Aurora always speeds up the database functionality, and it can run up to five times faster than a non-Aurora version of the same database. Aurora manages such fast speeds by using a distributed storage system to avoid bandwidth and disk-read bottlenecks. Aurora has many benefits compared to RDS:

Faster scaling: Aurora can almost instantly add additional read replicas whereas with RDS these can take some time to provision.
Read replicas: Aurora supports up to 15 replicas compared to five on RDS.
High durability: Aurora stores your data in six different locations across three Availability Zones (AZs) by default, so it has very high resilience as standard.
Rapid disaster recovery: Aurora can...