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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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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
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Part 5: Assessment
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Chapter 16: Exam Practice

Using Aurora's Global Database and Serverless options

Aurora offers two advanced features that can make a huge difference for certain use cases. In particular, customers who have a worldwide customer base can use Global Database options to reduce the latency between the database and applications around the world, improving performance. Customers with unpredictable or intermittent workloads can benefit from Aurora Serverless, where they can use a database without having to define the compute. Let's start by looking at Aurora Global Database in more depth.

Aurora Global Database

Aurora Global Database allows you to create a cross-region Aurora cluster where you can send read requests all over the world. This allows you to have read replicas in the same regions as your applications and users to greatly reduce latency times and improve the performance of your applications.

Aurora Global Database can also offer rapid recovery from a region outage, as any of the secondary...