Summary
Databases are always a critical component of any infrastructure. Using the AWS RDS managed service, AWS will take care of most of the heavy lifting, such as patching and backups, so your team can focus on writing business logic rather than managing database tasks. In this chapter, you have learned how to increase your database's availability by setting it up in high availability mode and creating and using read replicas.
In the next chapter, we will look at the monitoring solutions provided by AWS and how to set them up.
