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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
12
Part 3: Deployment and Migration and Database Security
16
Part 4: Monitoring and Optimization
20
Part 5: Assessment
21
Chapter 16: Exam Practice

AWS Glue

AWS Glue is a fully managed, serverless data integration and ETL service. It can extract, manipulate, and transform data from a wide range of sources, allowing you to create accurate data models that can be imported into a database, loaded into an analytics platform, or used for machine learning models.

AWS Glue can be controlled using both the Console and CLI commands to allow you to configure automated data handling and data loading into your databases.

There are three components that AWS Glue uses:

  • AWS Glue Data Catalog: This is a central repository that holds information about your data. It acts as an index to your schema and data stores, which helps control your ETL jobs.
  • Job Scheduling System: This is a highly customizable scheduler. It can handle not only time-based scheduling but also contains options to allow it to watch for new files or new data to be processed, as well as event-driven scheduling.
  • ETL Engine: AWS Glue's ETL engine is the...