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Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787125629

Length 600 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Tankariya

Parmar

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Dedication

Preface

1. AWS Certified Developer – Associate Certification FREE CHAPTER

2. Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS

3. Identity and Access Management

4. Virtual Private Clouds

5. Getting Started with Elastic Compute Cloud

6. Handling Application Traffic with Elastic Load Balancing

7. Monitoring with CloudWatch

8. Simple Storage Service, Glacier, and CloudFront

9. Other AWS Storage Options

10. AWS Relational Database Services

11. AWS DynamoDB - A NoSQL Database Service

12. Amazon Simple Queue Service

13. Simple Notification Service

14. Simple Workflow Service

15. AWS CloudFormation

16. Elastic Beanstalk

17. Overview of AWS Lambda

18. Mock Tests

Index

RDS best practices are as follows:

Create an individual AWS IAM user to perform DBA tasks. Grant the minimum privileges required to perform day-to-day tasks. Remove unused access key and secret key. Have a strong password policy and rotate the password periodically.
Before creating an RDS instance, identify Amazon RDS essential characteristics to be specified such as VPC, security group, failover or Read Replica requirement, the region and AZs to use, and storage and backup requirements.
Before creating an RDS instance, it is recommended to create a DB options group and DB parameter group.
Monitor Amazon RDS instance resources such as CPU, memory, and storage to avoid performance bottlenecks.
It is recommended to keep some extra buffer in memory and a storage volume while choosing RDS instance types.
It is recommended to test your environment for failover as it may take different lengths of time depending on the use case, instance type, and underlined data size.
Amazon RDS provides...