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RDS Advanced Operations: Proxy, Blue/Green & Zero-ETL

The operational features that separate a toy RDS setup from a production one — connection pooling with RDS Proxy, safe major-version upgrades with Blue/Green Deployments, Multi-AZ DB Clusters, and Zero-ETL integration into Redshift for analytics.

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Explain why Lambda functions connecting directly to RDS cause connection exhaustion, and how RDS Proxy solves it
  • Walk through how a Blue/Green Deployment tests a major version upgrade before cutover, and how rollback works
  • Distinguish a Multi-AZ DB instance from a Multi-AZ DB cluster and when each applies
  • Explain what Zero-ETL integration eliminates from a traditional database-to-analytics pipeline

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rds-fundamentalslambda-serverlessdynamodb-advanced-featuresanalytics-pipeline-services

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