RDS

Question 1

What is RDS

Answer 1

-a managed service for relational databases

Question 2

What are the advantages of rds?

Answer 2

• automated backups (during maintenance window)
• auto storage scaling
• read replicas
• encryption

Question 3

What can read replicas be used for?

Answer 3

-reporting purposes

Question 4

How can you make rds fault tolerant?

Answer 4

through rds multi az

Question 5

How can you establish network security for rds?

Answer 5

• by deploying in a private subnet

- by leveraging security groups

Question 6

How can you establish access management in rds?

Answer 6

through iam

Question 7

What advantages does amazon aurora have over rds?

Answer 7

• faster performance
• more read replicas (15 vs 5)
• high availability native
• cross region replication
• zero downtime

Question 8

How can you access specific aurora instances directly?

Answer 8

by defining custom endpoints and attach instances to them