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

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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Cheat sheet

This cheat sheet summarizes the key points from this chapter:

RPO is the maximum amount of data a company can lose without sustaining major damage.
RTO is the maximum amount of time a system can be unavailable without sustaining major damage.
RPO and RTO need to be considered together to define a backup and recovery strategy.
A recovery strategy can include backups, standby databases, read replicas, and manual scripts.
AWS Backup allows you to create centralized backup policies and plans to ensure that all your databases will meet your RTOs and RPOs.
AWS-managed databases offer maintenance windows that can be configured by the user to control the times that patching or other tasks that may cause a service disruption can run.
RDS daily backups run during a backup window, which should be set during the least busy times for the application to avoid performance impact.