Section 8: AWS Fundamentals: RDS + Aurora + ElastiCache Flashcards

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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.

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