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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
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Part 3: Deployment and Migration and Database Security
16
Part 4: Monitoring and Optimization
20
Part 5: Assessment
21
Chapter 16: Exam Practice

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about how the AWS infrastructure is organized into regions and availability zones and how a VPC gives you an area of AWS infrastructure that is yours to control and configure. We also learned about the different components of a VPC, such as subnets, gateways, and route tables, and we finished by creating VPCs using the AWS Console and awscli.

VPCs are the starting point for any deployments you make within AWS and knowing how they work is critical to be able to successfully deploy, configure, and maintain databases on AWS. Also, during the AWS Certified Database – Specialty exam, your knowledge of VPCs will be tested with questions about troubleshooting access or security problems caused by placing a database into a public subnet.

In the next chapter, we will learn about AWS RDS, and the knowledge we've gained during this chapter about VPCs will be reused in the rest of this book.