Aurora Flashcards
What is aurora?
Cloud native database. AWS fork of SQL.
Aurora replicates data over how many AZ’s as default?
3
If you change the default settings in Aurora. So that it only uses one availability zone, how long will recovery take in event of a fault?
10 mins.
Aurora will automatically promote a read replica in the event of an outage on the main database?
True
The four end point types in Aurora are
Cluster
Reader
Custom
Instance
In aurora. What is a cluster endpoint?
It points to the current master database instance. Allows for read and writes.
In aurora. What is a reader endpoint?
It load balances data across all read replicas.
In aurora. What is a custom endpoint?
Groups instances by a particular parameter.
You could for example have one particular chunk of code, then only use your custom end point.
In aurora. What is a instance endpoint?
The end point of a specific cluster.
If you stop an aurora cluster. It will automatically restart after how many days?
7
True or false. In aurora read replicas can be prioritised for promotion in the event of a failover?
True
What does aurora multi master clusters do?
Creates multiple masters for increased resilience.
When using aurora multi master clusters. Which does load balancing occur?
Client side
Can you have read replicas with multi master aurora clusters?
No
Give a description of aurora serverlesss
It auto scales compute level based on demand. And only charges you for when in use.
