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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

Cheat sheet

The cheat sheet summarizes the main key points from this chapter:

  • CloudWatch is the central monitoring tool for all AWS services.
  • RDS, EC2, and other AWS databases all natively send metrics to CloudWatch, and they can also be configured to send their log files to CloudWatch.
  • CloudWatch offers Enhanced Monitoring, which lets you accurately monitor the virtual machine the RDS database is running on.
  • You can use Performance Insights to get a visual representation of the real-time workload running on your database and its performance to help diagnose performance issues and to find queries that could be tuned.
  • CloudWatch allows the creation of dashboards to let you monitor all of your services and key metrics in one place, reducing the need for application teams to have access to the RDS console, which can help improve your database security.
  • You can create custom alarms within CloudWatch that can be configured to send emails or text messages if there...