You're reading from AWS for System Administrators Build, automate, and manage your infrastructure on the most popular cloud platform – AWS

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800201538

Length 388 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Prashant Lakhera

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: AWS Services and Tools

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up the AWS Environment FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Protecting Your AWS Account Using IAM

4. Section 2: Building the Infrastructure

5. Chapter 3: Creating a Data Center in the Cloud Using VPC

6. Chapter 4: Scalable Compute Capacity in the Cloud via EC2

7. Section 3: Adding Scalability and Elasticity to the Infrastructure

8. Chapter 5: Increasing an Application's Fault Tolerance with Elastic Load Balancing

9. Chapter 6: Increasing Application Performance Using AWS Auto Scaling

10. Chapter 7: Creating a Relational Database in the Cloud using AWS Relational Database Service (RDS)

11. Section 4: The Monitoring, Metrics, and Backup Layers

12. Chapter 8: Monitoring AWS Services Using CloudWatch and SNS

13. Chapter 9: Centralizing Logs for Analysis

14. Chapter 10: Centralizing Cloud Backup Solution

15. Chapter 11: AWS Disaster Recovery Solutions

16. Chapter 12: AWS Tips and Tricks

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Chapter 7: Creating a Relational Database in the Cloud using AWS Relational Database Service (RDS)

In the last chapter, you learned how to use the Auto Scaling group to scale in and scale down your resources based on demand.

In this chapter, we'll look at AWS Relational Database Service (RDS), to manage database service by using AWS. Using AWS RDS, it's easier to set up and manage databases in the cloud. When you use AWS RDS to create your database, AWS will take care of some of the heavy lifting, including the following:

Automated patching
Automatic failover
Backup and recovery
The point-in-time recover

In this chapter, we will look at various RDS offerings, and then we deep dive into the offering covering MySQL. We will start with setting up MySQL in multiple Availability Zones, which is useful in case of disaster recovery. Then we will further look at setting up a read-only replica, which takes away all the heavy read load from the master...