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AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide

By : Kate Gawron
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Book Image

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

On-premises versus cloud databases

An on-premises database could be defined as follows:

"A database that is owned, operated, and maintained by the customer within a location that they control and have full autonomy over the database and underlying servers and networking components. This can be a server room in their office or a rented cabinet within a shared data center that the customer has full and direct access to."

With an on-premises database, everything is done internally, from installation and implementation to running the database every day. Maintenance, security, and updates also need to be taken care of in-house. You will need to arrange for when the software will be purchased before it is installed on your servers. The customer will assume complete ownership and control, even if this is via a management company or service provider.

A cloud database could be defined as follows:

"A database that is owned, operated, and maintained by the customer...