In this chapter, we learned about Amazon RDS and its supported database engines as Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. Amazon RDS is a managed service, which helps the user to easily create and operate the database infrastructure. We can provide a secured access using the database supported user management and also configure IAM to access the database. We have an option to create the DB instance with Multi-AZ enabled, which will help us to configure highly available database for production workload. Also, we can set-up the automated backup and version upgrades by defining a specific time in which you don't have much workload on the database. Also, Amazon RDS provides us the option to create the DB cluster which will contain one or more DB instances. DB cluster helps us to handle fault tolerance by switching the replica instance...




















































