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AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide

By : Kate Gawron
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AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide

5 (1)
By: Kate Gawron

Overview of this book

The AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification is one of the most challenging AWS certifications. It validates your comprehensive understanding of databases, including the concepts of design, migration, deployment, access, maintenance, automation, monitoring, security, and troubleshooting. With this guide, you'll understand how to use various AWS databases, such as Aurora Serverless and Global Database, and even services such as Redshift and Neptune. You’ll start with an introduction to the AWS databases, and then delve into workload-specific database design. As you advance through the chapters, you'll learn about migrating and deploying the databases, along with database security techniques such as encryption, auditing, and access controls. This AWS book will also cover monitoring, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery techniques, before testing all the knowledge you've gained throughout the book with the help of mock tests. By the end of this book, you'll have covered everything you need to pass the DBS-C01 AWS certification exam and have a handy, on-the-job desk reference guide.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS
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2
Chapter 1: AWS Certified Database – Specialty Overview
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Part 2: Workload-Specific Database Design
12
Part 3: Deployment and Migration and Database Security
16
Part 4: Monitoring and Optimization
20
Part 5: Assessment
21
Chapter 16: Exam Practice

Monitoring and tuning DMS

DMS offers a large number of options for logging and monitoring, depending on your needs. In general, for any new job or one that has not been tested, you should enable full debugging monitoring so that you can trace any errors. Once a job has been completed successfully, you can reduce monitoring on subsequent runs to minimize costs as all monitoring logs are charged for.

The following monitoring and logging tools are available to you:

  • DMS Console: You can use the DMS GUI to check the status of the current tasks.
  • AWS CLI: You can run awscli commands to obtain the current task's status.
  • AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS): You can configure SNS events to notify you via email of any changes to your tasks.
  • CloudWatch: DMS can be configured to send enhanced logs to CloudWatch, allowing you to trace errors.
  • Time Travel Logs: DMS Time Travel stores information about CDC changes that have been made, allowing you to see the exact...