DVA-C02 Introduction
DynamoDB Basics
Amazon DynamoDB
Creating DynamoDB Tables and Indices
Working with Large Tables in DynamoDB
Amazon RDS
High Availability in Amazon Aurora
Aurora Serverless
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
Which Database Service Should I Use
The course is part of this learning path
This course provides detail on the AWS Database services relevant to the AWS Certified Developer - Associate exam. This includes Amazon RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, MemoryDB for Redis, and ElastiCache.
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Learning Objectives
- Obtain a solid understanding of the following Amazon database services: Amazon RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, MemoryDB for Redis, and ElastiCache
- Create an Amazon RDS database
- Create a DynamoDB database
- Create an ElastiCache cluster
Hello, and welcome to this quick lecture, where I will introduce you to Amazon MemoryDB for Redis. This service is newly in scope for both the AWS Certified Developer - Associate and AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exams, so I wanted to give you a quick overview of this service and what it does.
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is a fully managed in-memory data store service that’s compatible with the popular open-source Redis data structure store. It’s designed to provide ultra-fast, low-latency access to data stored in memory, providing microsecond read and single-digit millisecond write latencies.
MemoryDB for Redis gets deployed as a cluster within your VPC. And each cluster consists of one or more nodes that are responsible for serving a single dataset. That dataset is partitioned into shards, and each shard will have a primary node and, optionally, up to 5 read replica nodes. You can even spread these replica nodes across availability zones to provide high availability. And of course, there are built-in failover capabilities, which allows a replica node to be promoted to the primary node for a given shard in the event of a failure in the current primary node.
MemoryDB for Redis also supports a number of other advanced features, such as:
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Clusters up to 500 nodes in size, which depending on node configuration can offer up to 100 TB of data storage,
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Transaction logs that are distributed across multiple availability zones to ensure your data is durable, consistent, and quickly recoverable in the event of a failure,
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Data tiering, which allows you to move data that is accessed less frequently to disk,
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Support for encryption of data both in transit and at rest, and
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Snapshots for easy backup and restore of your MemoryDB cluster.
So to recap, Amazon MemoryDB for Redis offers ultra-fast access to in-memory data sets and can help you reduce the complexity and cost of managing data store infrastructure for your applications.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this quick introduction to MemoryDB for Redis. Thanks for joining me, and best of luck on your certification journey!
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