Database Engines Supported by AWS

• Relational Databases
  • Existing Engines:
    • Oracle
    • Microsoft SQL Server
    • PostgreSQL
    • mySQL
    • maria db
  • AWS Managed Engines
    • PostgreSQL => RDS (AWS Aurora for Postgres)
    • mysql => RDS (AWS Aurora for mysql)
    • Oracle, MSSQL, mysql, maria db, postgres =>RDS
• NOSQL:
  • Engines:
    • AWS Dynamo DB
    • Neptune (Graph Database)
    • QLDB (Ledger [Block chain] )
    • Timestream
  • AWS Managed Engines
    • Mongo db => Document DB
    • Cassandra => KeySpaces
    • Redis => Amazon Memory DB for Redis
    • Redis,Memcached => Elastic Cache

What to expect from managed databases

• Features
  • automatic backups
  • Setting replications
  • Firewalls around databases
  • Disaster Recovery

What not to expect from managed databases

• Older version support
• shell access into os
• performance tuning will not be managed, you should still do this

Terms

• Service: What aws offers
  • Ownership: AWS
• Resource: What we create.
  • Ownership: you
• Cloud Services Provider (CSP)
• Cloud Services Consumer

Services

• Relational Databases: AWS RDS (Relational Database Service)
• NoSQL:
  • Dynamo DB
  • Document DB
  • KeySpaces DB
  • Neptune
• Cache:
  • Elastic Cache
  • Memory DB
• Block Chain
  • QLDB
• IOT
  • Timeseries DB
• DataWarehouse:
  • Redshift

Using Database on AWS has 3 wider options

• Use Managed Databases
• Create your own ec2 instance and manually install/configure database
• Search for Market place ec2 ami which helps in pre installed databases

Licensing

• AWS supports two kinds of Licensing
  • Software cost per hour
  • BYOL (Bring your own license)