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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

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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)
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Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS
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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

Building a VPC

In the Virtual Private Cloud overview section, we learned what a typical VPC looks like with private and public subnets and two AZs. We are now going to build this VPC using both the AWS Console and the AWS Command-Line Interface (awscli). If you have not yet created an AWS Account or configured awscli, please follow the steps in the Technical requirements section of this chapter before continuing.

Using the AWS Console

We are going to deploy a VPC using the AWS Console first. The tasks you will complete are as follows:

  • Creating the VPC
  • Creating the subnets
  • Creating the gateways
  • Editing the route tables

Now navigate to the AWS Console: console.aws.com.

Creating the VPC

Follow the given steps to create the VPC:

  1. Log in to the AWS Console using the account you created earlier (or using an existing one) and check your region at the top right of the console home page. We will be using eu-west-2 during this lab, but you are free...