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AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide

By : Vipul Tankariya, Bhavin Parmar
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AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide

By: Vipul Tankariya, Bhavin Parmar

Overview of this book

AWS Certified Developer - Associate Guide starts with a quick introduction to AWS and the prerequisites to get you started. Then, this book gives you a fair understanding of core AWS services and basic architecture. Next, this book will describe about getting familiar with Identity and Access Management (IAM) along with Virtual private cloud (VPC). Moving ahead you will learn about Elastic Compute cloud (EC2) and handling application traffic with Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). Going ahead you we will talk about Monitoring with CloudWatch, Simple storage service (S3) and Glacier and CloudFront along with other AWS storage options. Next we will take you through AWS DynamoDB – A NoSQL Database Service, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and CloudFormation Overview. Finally, this book covers understanding Elastic Beanstalk and overview of AWS lambda. At the end of this book, we will cover enough topics, tips and tricks along with mock tests for you to be able to pass the AWS Certified Developer - Associate exam and develop as well as manage your applications on the AWS platform.
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. AWS Relational Database Services

AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) is a fully managed relational database service from Amazon. RDS makes it easier for enterprises and developers who want to use a relational database in the cloud without investing a lot of time and resources in managing the environment. AWS RDS supports six database engines: AmazonAurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. It provides easy-to-use, cost-effective, and scalable relational databases in the cloud.

The advantages of Amazon RDS are as follows:

  • It's a fully managed service that automatically manages backups, software and OS patching, automatic failover, and recovery.
  • It also allows taking a manual backup of the database as a snapshot. Snapshots of a database can be used to restore a database as and when required.
  • RDS provides fine-grained access control with the help of AWS IAM.

AWS RDS does not provide root access to the RDS instance. In short, RDS does not allow the user to...