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Building applications is all about data collection and management. If you design an e-commerce application, you want to show available inventory catalog data to customers and collect purchase data as they make a transaction. Similarly, if it is an autonomous vehicle application, you want to analyze surrounding traffic data and provide the right prediction to data to cars. As of now, you learned about networking, storage, and compute in previous chapters. In this chapter, you will learn the choices of database services available in AWS to complete the core architecture tech stack.
With so many choices at your disposal, it is easy to get analysis paralysis. So, in this chapter, we will first lay a foundation of how the databases and their use cases can be classified and then use these classifications to help us pick the right service for our particular use case and our circumstances. In this chapter, you will navigate the...