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Amazon Web Services Bootcamp

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Amazon Web Services Bootcamp

Overview of this book

AWS is at the forefront of Cloud Computing today. Businesses are adopting AWS Cloud because of its reliability, versatility, and flexible design. The main focus of this book is teaching you how to build and manage highly reliable and scalable applications and services on AWS. It will provide you with all the necessary skills to design, deploy, and manage your applications and services on the AWS cloud platform. We’ll start by exploring Amazon S3, EC2, and so on to get you well-versed with core Amazon services. Moving on, we’ll teach you how to design and deploy highly scalable and optimized workloads. You’ll also discover easy-to-follow, hands-on steps, tips, and recommendations throughout the book and get to know essential security and troubleshooting concepts. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications to run on.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Supported databases


Amazon RDS supports the database engines that we will elaborate on shortly.

Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora is a fully managed relational database engine provided by Amazon Web Services. As Aurora offers MySQL and PostgreSQL database compatibility, we can use our existing code, client tools, applications, and database drivers as is. Aurora comes with all the features, which are provided by MySQL and PostgreSQL database, and additionally it caters to cost-effectiveness and performance efficiency, which are provided by commercial database engines. Database migration becomes easier and seamless due to compatibility without making any changes for datatypes or data conversions.

MariaDB

MariaDB is a fully managed service provided by Amazon. MariaDB was being forked from MySQL, so all the features of MySQL are incorporated with additional features of MariaDB. It is being developed by MySQL developers and is being managed by the open source community. MariaDB is also a preferred choice...