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

The cheat sheet summarizes the main key points from this chapter:

CloudWatch is the central monitoring tool for all AWS services.
RDS, EC2, and other AWS databases all natively send metrics to CloudWatch, and they can also be configured to send their log files to CloudWatch.
CloudWatch offers Enhanced Monitoring, which lets you accurately monitor the virtual machine the RDS database is running on.
You can use Performance Insights to get a visual representation of the real-time workload running on your database and its performance to help diagnose performance issues and to find queries that could be tuned.
CloudWatch allows the creation of dashboards to let you monitor all of your services and key metrics in one place, reducing the need for application teams to have access to the RDS console, which can help improve your database security.
You can create custom alarms within CloudWatch that can be configured to send emails or text messages if there...