Section 8: AWS Fundamentals: RDS + Aurora + ElastiCache Flashcards
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Q
RDS
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A relational database service. It uses SQL.
Examples include:
- Postgres
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- Oracle
- Microsoft SQL Server
- IBM DB2
- Aurora
It’s a managed service with automated provisioning, OS patching. Has continuous backups and restore to specific timestamp. Has monitoring dashboards, read replicas for improved read performance.
Also has multi-AZ setup for Disaster Recovery.
Has maintenance windows for upgrades.
Has scaling capability and storage backed by EBS.
Can’t SSH into your instances.
Can set a Maximum Storage Threshold to limit autoscaling.