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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 addition

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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 L

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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 autoscal

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05 · RDS

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 ap

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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. Th

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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-gr

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