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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)
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Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS
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2
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

Chapter 4: Relational Database Service

In this chapter, we are going to dive deep into AWS Relational Database Service (RDS). RDS is a major topic within the AWS Certified Database – Specialty exam and understanding it will not only greatly improve your preparation for the exam, but also help you understand later chapters, which will cover different database types.

This chapter includes a hands-on lab where we will deploy, configure, and explore an RDS instance, including how we can monitor it. During this section, you will need a VPC with a minimum of two subnets. If you have not completed Chapter 3, Understanding AWS Infrastructure, please ensure you have a VPC that meets the minimum requirements, as detailed here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_VPC.WorkingWithRDSInstanceinaVPC.html.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Overview of RDS
  • Understanding replicas and multi-AZ
  • Configuring backups...