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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)
1
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

Deploying an RDS instance

Now that we've learned about RDS and its features, let's deploy an instance to practice and learn how the topics we've covered in this chapter work together. We will be deploying an RDS instance using the MySQL engine. After that, we will take a snapshot and restore it before creating and making changes to a parameter group. We'll be using both the AWS console and the AWS CLI for this.

Provisioning an RDS instance

We'll start by provisioning an RDS MySQL instance. We'll be using the Ohio (us-east-1) region. Let's get started:

  1. Open the AWS console in an internet browser and log in using an account that has the privileges to create and modify an RDS instance.
  2. Navigate to the RDS section.
  3. Click the orange Create database button in the middle of the page:

Figure 4.4 – AWS console

  1. This will open a page where you can enter details about the database you want to create...