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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

By : Rajesh Daswani
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Book Image

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

3 (1)
By: Rajesh Daswani

Overview of this book

Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud computing service provider in the world. Its foundational certification, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01), is the first step to fast-tracking your career in cloud computing. This certification will add value even to those in non-IT roles, including professionals from sales, legal, and finance who may be working with cloud computing or AWS projects. If you are a seasoned IT professional, this certification will make it easier for you to prepare for more technical certifications to progress up the AWS ladder and improve your career prospects. The book is divided into four parts. The first part focuses on the fundamentals of cloud computing and the AWS global infrastructure. The second part examines key AWS technology services, including compute, network, storage, and database services. The third part covers AWS security, the shared responsibility model, and several security tools. In the final part, you'll study the fundamentals of cloud economics and AWS pricing models and billing practices. Complete with exercises that highlight best practices for designing solutions, detailed use cases for each of the AWS services, quizzes, and two complete practice tests, this CLF-C01 exam study guide will help you gain the knowledge and hands-on experience necessary to ace the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Cloud Concepts
5
Section 2: AWS Technologies
16
Section 3: AWS Security
18
Section 4: Billing and Pricing
20
Chapter 16: Mock Tests

Introduction to Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS offers traditional relational databases as fully managed services on the AWS platform. Ideal for transactional database requirements, also known as OLTP, AWS offers six different database engines, as follows:

  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MariaDB
  • Microsoft SQL server
  • Oracle
  • Amazon Aurora

Another term you might have heard of is Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). An RDBMS performs functions to create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) data from the database using an underlying software component, which we call the database engine.

An important point to understand here is that when you choose to set up an Amazon RDS database, you are setting up a database instance with a chosen engine to run on that instance. You can then create one or more databases supported by that engine on your database instance. This means you can have several databases running on an individual database instance.

Furthermore, on Amazon...