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RDS cheat sheet & developer notes

RDS cheat sheet and 7 curated developer notes — core concepts, patterns, and interview prep. Maintained by the DevRecall team.

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01 · RDS

RDS Setup & Instance Types

RDS Setup & Instance Types. Amazon RDS manages relational database infrastructure — provisioning, patching, backups, and scaling. Choosing the right engine, instance class, storage type, and deployment mode affects cost,…

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02 · RDS

Backups & High Availability

RDS Backups & High Availability. RDS provides automated backups, manual snapshots, and Multi-AZ deployments out of the box. Read replicas extend this further with read scalability and cross-region DR. Aurora adds additio…

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03 · RDS

Security & Connections

RDS Security & Connections. RDS security relies on VPC isolation, security groups, IAM database authentication, and Secrets Manager for credentials. RDS Proxy solves connection pooling at scale — especially critical for …

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04 · RDS

Performance & Monitoring

RDS Performance & Monitoring. RDS Performance Insights, Enhanced Monitoring, slow query logs, and CloudWatch metrics together give a complete picture of database health. Knowing which knobs to turn — from storage autosca…

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05 · RDS

Security, Backup & Monitoring

RDS: Security, Backup & Monitoring. Network Security. # RDS should be in private subnets — never publicly accessible # DB subnet group spans multiple AZs for Multi-AZ support aws rds create-db-subnet-group \ --db-subnet-…

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Fundamentals & Supported Engines

AWS RDS: Fundamentals & Supported Engines. Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) is a managed relational database service. AWS handles provisioning, patching, backups, and failover. You focus on schema, queries, and a…

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Multi-AZ, Read Replicas & Scaling

RDS: Multi-AZ, Read Replicas & Scaling. Multi-AZ Deployment. Multi-AZ maintains a synchronous standby replica in a different Availability Zone. Failover happens automatically in 60–120 seconds when AWS detects an issue. …

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