Chapter 5: Deep Dive into Database Services
This chapter provides a comprehensive understanding of AWS database offerings, detailing how to set up and manage both relational and NoSQL databases. Key services like Amazon RDS and DynamoDB are explored, alongside backup, restore strategies, and methods for monitoring and performance tuning. Essential practices for ensuring data integrity, availability, and scalability are also outlined to support modern application needs.
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What we have learnt
- How to launch, configure, and manage Amazon RDS relational database instances.
- The fundamental concepts and advantages of DynamoDB, AWS’s serverless NoSQL database.
- Backup and restore strategies crucial for protecting data integrity.
- Methods to monitor database health and optimize performance to ensure reliable, scalable, and cost-effective database operations.
Key Concepts
- -- Amazon RDS
- A managed relational database service that simplifies the setup, operation, and scaling of a relational database in the cloud.
- -- DynamoDB
- A fully managed NoSQL database service optimized for fast performance and seamless scalability, utilizing a flexible schema-less data model.
- -- Backup and Restore
- Strategies to ensure data recovery and integrity, utilizing automated backups, manual snapshots, and point-in-time recovery.
- -- Monitoring
- Processes to track database performance metrics using services like AWS CloudWatch to maintain optimal database health.
- -- Performance Tuning
- Techniques to optimize database performance through instance selection, SQL query optimization, and using read replicas.
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