Relational Database in AWS (RDS)

• When RDS Database is created, ourselves and amazon share responsibility
• When we Create Database we choose

  • Database Engine

  • Region and Availability zone

    • Choosen using VPC and subnet

  • Firewall

    • Security Group

  • Size of the Virtual Machine (CPU and RAM)

    • DB Instance Class: Refer Here

  • Disk Size in the Virtual Machine

    • Db Instance Storage:

  • When Backups have to be taken

What will happen if the server/AZ fails?

• High Availiability is provided => multi Az Deployments
• Can i go for multi region solution => Cross-Region Replications
• Is there any Cheaper Option => Perform Read Replication & Promotions

Connecting to Database

• Publically Accesible:
• How Applications speak with RDS (Connection Strings)
  • You have endpoint
  • You have username
  • You have password
  • Now build a Connection string for the application language
    • Java
    • .net