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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
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Part 3: Deployment and Migration and Database Security
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Part 4: Monitoring and Optimization
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Part 5: Assessment
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Chapter 16: Exam Practice

Chapter 5: Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It has many similarities to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), which we learned about in the previous chapter, but it also has many exclusive features. Aurora is a major topic within the AWS Certified Database – Specialty exam and as it features many of the same technologies as RDS it is highly recommended that you study Chapter 4, Relational Database Service, before this one.

In this chapter, we will learn about Amazon Aurora's architecture and how it differs from RDS, how we can achieve high availability and design Aurora to allow rapid disaster recovery, and we'll learn about some advanced options and features that only exist within Aurora.

This chapter includes a hands-on lab where we will deploy, configure, and explore an Aurora cluster, including how we can monitor it.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main...