intermediate~2.5h

Amazon RDS Fundamentals

Managed relational databases — Multi-AZ for availability, read replicas for scale, and RDS Proxy for connection management, without running the database server yourself.

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Explain what RDS manages for you versus running a database on EC2 yourself
  • Explain the difference between Multi-AZ and Read Replicas
  • Explain what RDS Proxy solves and when you'd need it
  • Choose an appropriate RDS engine and deployment configuration for a given workload

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dynamodb-fundamentalsdatabase-selectionvpc-networking

Next Step

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