AWS Databases Flashcards

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Relational Database Service (RDS)

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Fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and manage relational databases

  • offers high availability and fault tolerance using Multi-AZ deployment option
  • AWS manages the database with automatic software patching, automated backups, operating system maintenance and more
  • launch read replicas across Regions in order to provide enhanced performance and durability
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RDS Aurora

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Relational database compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL that was created by AWS

  • 5x faster than normal MySQL and 3x faster than normal PostgreSQL
  • scales automatically while providing durability and high availability
  • deploy replicas for read scaling within and across Regions
  • automated backups
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DynamoDB

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Fully managed NoSQL key-value and document database

  • Serverless
  • Schema less
  • scales automatically to massive workloads with fast performance with no downtime
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DocumentDB

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Fully managed document database that supports MongoDB

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ElastiCache

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Fully managed in-memory datastore compatible with Redis or Memcached

  • caches database queries
  • provides sub-millisecond latency to power internet-scale real-time applications
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MemoryDB for Redis

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In-memory database that delivers ultra fast performance

  • stores entire data set in memory (database and cache)
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Neptune

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Fully managed graph database that supports highly connected datasets

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DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

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fully managed, highly available in-memory cache for DynamoDB that deliver up to 10x performance improvement of requests per second

  • from milliseconds to microseconds
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Amazon RedShift

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fast, fully managed data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and existing Business Intelligence (BI) tools

  • SQL based data warehouse used for analytics applications
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