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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

Virtual private cloud overview

A VPC is a part of the AWS cloud infrastructure that is logically isolated for your sole use. You can think of it as your own virtual data center running in AWS.

Logically means that the underlying servers and networking components that you use may be shared with other customers, similar to how you can run virtual machines on-premises. For example, you will not have your own network connections or physical servers, but you will have complete control over your virtual network configuration and server deployments.

Isolated means a VPC is fully controlled by you, and only you and others to whom you grant access. Within the VPC, the only objects that exist are ones that you deploy.

Before we get hands-on with the AWS Console, it's important to understand some of the terms AWS uses to describe its infrastructure. The highest level of AWS infrastructure is called a Region. A region is a collection of data centers that are located geographically...