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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
Free Chapter
2
Chapter 1: AWS Certified Database – Specialty Overview
5
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

Configuring AWS Key Management Service and Secrets Manager

Secrets Manager is an encrypted and secure key-value store where you can save any information you would like to keep secret. It integrates natively into a wide range of AWS services, including most of their database platforms, such as RDS and DocumentDB. It can automate password rotation and sync the changes to your databases to ensure your application is disrupted.

A common problem that is resolved using AWS Secrets Manager is storing database passwords within the application or in text files that can easily be accessed by unauthorized users. You can store the database passwords in AWS Secrets Manager and use the AWS CLI to retrieve them. These passwords can be changed on an automatic schedule and will update both the passwords stored with AWS Secrets Manager, as well as within the RDS databases. To allow your application to obtain these passwords from Secrets Manager, you will need to modify the code to allow your application...