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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Working with CloudWatch

CloudWatch is the central monitoring and alerting repository for all AWS services. As such, it is extremely powerful and features many advanced tools and processes, which we do not need to know for the Database Specialty exam. However, given the usefulness of many of these additional features, there is a recommended book in the Further reading section for anyone wanting to know more beyond the scope of this chapter.

CloudWatch can be used to monitor any of your databases running within AWS, not just RDS. It can also be used to monitor databases running on-premises by installing the CloudWatch agent within your data center.

The main page of CloudWatch is Dashboards. You can create your own dashboards to show the metrics that are the most useful to you across all AWS services. For example, if you had an application running on EC2 with a load balancer and an RDS instance, you could create a dashboard that monitored the CPU and memory of the EC2 instances...