You're reading from AWS Certified Developer Associate Certification and Beyond A comprehensive guide to help you succeed in the AWS DVA-C02 certification exam

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801819299

Length 710 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Amazon EKS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Rajesh Daswani

Dorian Richard

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Introduction to AWS Accounts and Global Infrastructure

2. Chapter 2: Securing Access with AWS Identity and Access Management FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Understanding Object Storage with Amazon S3, Hybrid Storage, and Static Website Hosting

4. Chapter 4: Building Private Networks in the Cloud with Amazon VPC

5. Chapter 5: Understanding AWS Compute Services with Amazon EC2 and Storage Options

6. Chapter 6: Managing Multiple Datasets with AWS Relational and Non-Relational (NoSQL) Databases

7. Chapter 7: Building Application Solutions with High Availability, Elasticity, and Data Security

8. Chapter 8: Event-Driven Computing with AWS Lambda and Securing Access to Backend APIs with Amazon API Gateway

9. Chapter 9: Incorporating Edge Network Services to Connect to Your Application with Amazon CloudFront and Route 53

10. Chapter 10: Designing Deployment Strategies with AWS Elastic Beanstalk

11. Chapter 11: Deploying a Multi-Tier Application Stack with Amazon ECS, Fargate, and EKS

12. Chapter 12: Getting to Grips with DevOps Using AWS CI/CD Tools

13. Chapter 13: Building Infrastructure Using Code with CloudFormation and the Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

14. Chapter 14: Designing Serverless Applications with AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) and AWS AppSync

15. Chapter 15: Decoupling the Application Stack and Managing Data Ingestion

16. Chapter 16: Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail

17. Chapter 17: Accessing the Online Practice Resources

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Introduction to Amazon RDS

Relational databases are also known as SQL databases (as opposed to non-relational databases, classified as NoSQL or Not Only SQL). You will learn more about the non-relational or NoSQL databases later in this chapter. However, this definition is incorrect. SQL stands for Sequel Query Language and is a language used to manage data (add, edit, update, retrieve, and delete data among others) on databases. The term SQL is often used interchangeably with relational databases.

Amazon RDS is a managed relational database service offering six database engines. These are MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, MariaDB, and Amazon’s own proprietary database, Amazon Aurora. It’s important to note that Amazon Aurora is a different product that you will look at in more detail later in this chapter.

A relational database uses the concept of tables to store data. Relational databases allow you to define multiple tables within the database;...