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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)
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Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS
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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

Summary

In this chapter, we explored the key database security features that are offered by AWS. This included encryption, audit controls and monitoring, VPC security, and secure password storage.

We learned how to configure a VPC securely for our database and learned how to set a database in a private subnet that's protected by security groups that only allow access to authorized hosts. In addition, we learned how bastion hosts are used to provide administrative access to a database without exposing the database to the public internet.

Then, we looked at database encryption techniques and how to work with encrypted snapshots, including how to copy an encrypted snapshot between regions using customer-managed keys stored in AWS KMS.

Finally, we learned how to store secret database connection details and passwords using AWS Secrets Manager.

Database security is a major topic within the AWS Certified Database Specialty exam and there will be several questions about it...