You're reading from AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Exam Guide (SAP-C02) Gain the practical skills, knowledge, and confidence to ace the AWS (SAP-C02) exam on your first attempt

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813136

Length 428 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Yohan Wadia

Patrick Sard

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Determining an Authentication and Access Control Strategy for Complex Organizations

2. Chapter 2: Designing Networks for Complex Organizations FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Designing a Multi-Account AWS Environment for Complex Organizations

4. Chapter 4: Ensuring Cost Optimization

5. Chapter 5: Determining Security Requirements and Controls

6. Chapter 6: Meeting Reliability Requirements

7. Chapter 7: Ensuring Business Continuity

8. Chapter 8: Meeting Performance Objectives

9. Chapter 9: Establishing a Deployment Strategy

10. Chapter 10: Designing for Cost Efficiency

11. Chapter 11: Improving Operational Excellence

12. Chapter 12: Improving Reliability

13. Chapter 13: Improving Performance

14. Chapter 14: Improving Security

15. Chapter 15: Improving Deployment

16. Chapter 16: Exploring Opportunities for Cost Optimization

17. Chapter 17: Selecting Existing Workloads and Processes to Migrate

18. Chapter 18: Selecting Migration Tools and Services

19. Chapter 19: Determining a New Architecture for Existing Workloads

20. Chapter 20: Determining Opportunities for Modernization and Enhancements

21. Chapter 21: Accessing the Online Practice Resources

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Identifying Opportunities for Purpose-Built Databases

When it comes to purpose-built databases, AWS offers a select variety of databases that customers can choose from for their application workloads, including NoSQL, graph, time series, in-memory, search, and so on. In this section of the chapter, you will also explore these few select categories of database offerings and learn about identifying the right service for the right workloads.

For this section as well, we shall leverage the same SQL Server monolith database as an example and map it against each of the migration and modernization opportunities listed here, starting with rehosting.

Opportunity 1: Rehosting

Rehosting is the preferred choice for migrating even database workloads if you wish to have a faster mechanism of moving workloads to the cloud. Keeping in mind that our sample application is a SQL server, the options for rehosting are once again limited to leveraging Amazon EC2 instances itself. AWS provides licensed...