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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)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS
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2
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

Chapter 12: AWS Database Security

Database security is a critical part of both the AWS Database Specialty exam and the work that an AWS DBA carries out daily. Database security focuses on how to restrict access to your databases and how to audit it efficiently, how to encrypt your data both in transit and at rest to stop unauthorized access to the data, and how to use other AWS services, such as Key Management Service and Secrets Manager, to protect passwords and login credentials. There will be several questions about database security in the AWS Database Specialty exam, so this is an important chapter if you wish to apply database security to a wide range of case studies.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Database encryption
  • Working with RDS encryption
  • Implementing database and VPC access controls
  • Auditing databases
  • Configuring AWS Key Management Service and Secrets Manager

Let's start by looking at database...