This video explains about the AWS RDS service offered by Amazon and how to establish the connectivity between client application (for example MS SQL server management studio ) to AWS RDS db instance.
AWS RDS and Hands On
A DB instance in a VPC accessed by a client application through the internet
Concepts:
1. CPU, memory, storage, IOPS
2. Backup, software patching, automatic failure detection, recovery
3. No Shell Access
4. Automated /manual backup ļ S3, S3ļ RDS
5. MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server.
6. Security ā Security Groups, IAM roles
7. high availability – Multi-AZ deployment (inexpensive, low-latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones)
8. Separate DB Engine for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server
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