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Study break: Reviewing database services

Study break: Reviewing database services

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Study break: Reviewing database services

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- [Instructor] In this chapter, we went over four of the major database services in AWS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Relational Database Service, or RDS, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon Redshift. Let's quickly review all of them to make sure we've got the fundamental concepts down before moving on. Amazon DynamoDB is a fast, flexible, fully managed, and secure non-relational, or NoSQL, database that can handle more than 10 trillion requests per day and support peaks of more than 20 million requests per second. It's serverless, so you don't have to provision, patch, or manage any servers, and it automatically scales up or down to adjust for capacity. Instead of worrying about managing your database, you can just worry about scaling your application. Amazon Relational Database Service, or Amazon RDS, is a fully managed relational database. Because it's fully managed, like Amazon DynamoDB, you don't have to provision or manage any servers. Instead of spending your time doing administrative tasks…

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