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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)

Summary


In this chapter, we learned about Amazon RDS and its supported database engines as Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. Amazon RDS is a managed service, which helps the user to easily create and operate the database infrastructure. We can provide a secured access using the database supported user management and also configure IAM to access the database. We have an option to create the DB instance with Multi-AZ enabled, which will help us to configure highly available database for production workload. Also, we can set-up the automated backup and version upgrades by defining a specific time in which you don't have much workload on the database. Also, Amazon RDS provides us the option to create the DB cluster which will contain one or more DB instances. DB cluster helps us to handle fault tolerance by switching the replica instance to the primary instance.

In Chapter 6Implementing DynamoDB – NoSQL Database, we will see how we can use the Amazon...