Cache Databases

• Infrequently changing values in the databases can be cached for improving application performance
• For implementing Cache, we have two popular engines
  • Redis
  • Memcached
• To support this Cache, AWS offers
  • Elastic Cache:
    • Memcached
    • Redis
  • MemoryDb
    • Redis
• Azure offers
  • Azure Cache for Redis

Administrative Activities on Databases

Backups

• AWS Backup:
  • Vault: This is the storage location where backups are getting stored
  • Backup plan: This is information about when to take backups
  • Protected Resources: The resources where the backup is enabled
  • Services Supported
    
• Azure Backup Center
  

Encryptions

• AWS has a service called as KMS (Key Management Service) where we have keys for encryption and decryption
• In RDS or any other storage to encrypt the data we need to select the key
• Encryptions in Azure can be over Azure Key Vault Refer Here

Datawarehouse

• AWS Redshift
• Azure Synapse Analytics