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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
16
Part 4: Monitoring and Optimization
20
Part 5: Assessment
21
Chapter 16: Exam Practice

Chapter 10: The AWS Schema Conversion Tool and AWS Database Migration Service

In the previous chapters, we learned about the different databases that are offered by AWS and the key features and use cases for each. Now, we are going to learn how to migrate a database to AWS and the tools that are available to help you – that is, AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) and AWS Database Migration Service (DMS).

AWS SCT is a tool that allows you to assess a database's ability to migrate to AWS RDS and whether you can convert the database from a commercial database engine, such as Oracle, into an open source database. Then, it helps you convert the database objects and code for the new database engine.

AWS DMS can also help convert from one database engine into another, but its main role is to move the data within your database from on-premises to AWS or between AWS databases. It offers both bulk load and Change Data Capture (CDC) modes to support different types of migrations...