Amazon Aurora MySQL - Basics

Offered By: Amazon Web Services via AWS Skill Builder

Course Description

Overview

In this course, you will gain an introductory understanding of Amazon Aurora MySQL. Aurora is a fully managed relational database engine that is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL database management systems. You will learn about Aurora MySQL architecture, storage concepts, and key features. Course provided by AWS Support.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

Database support
Database administrators
Database developers
Database architects
Database engineers
AWS customers

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

Explain Aurora and its architecture
Define high availability in Aurora
Define basic storage concepts
Identify important features of Aurora

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

AWS Cloud Practitioner certification

Delivery Method

This course is delivered through:

Digital training

Duration

15 minutes

Course Outline

This course covers the following concepts:

What is Amazon Aurora?
Aurora innovations
Scale-out of distributed architecture
Traditional monolithic architecture
Aurora – Service-oriented architecture vs. high-level architecture
Aurora replication, high availability, and failover
Aurora reader priority tier
Aurora architecture DB instance
Aurora storage concepts and storage benefits
Aurora supported instances and instance local storage
Aurora endpoints
Parameter groups