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RDS, Aurora & ElastiCache
Section 7 of 30
Managed relational databases with RDS and Aurora, plus in-memory caching with ElastiCache
80 min•intermediate
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Key Takeaways
- •RDS provides managed relational databases for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MariaDB, and DB2
- •Read Replicas provide read scalability (async replication), Multi-AZ provides high availability (sync replication)
- •Aurora is AWS's proprietary database with 5x MySQL and 3x PostgreSQL performance, auto-scaling storage up to 128 TB
- •ElastiCache offers managed Redis (persistent, replicated) or Memcached (multi-threaded, sharded) for caching
- •Use database proxy to pool connections, IAM authentication for security, and encryption at rest and in transit
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