EC2 Relational Database AMIs

Databases are among the most used applications in the cloud (or anywhere else, for that matter). Managing data is exactly what computers were invented for, so it should come as no surprise that a great deal of attention is focused on the many different Database Management Systems and Data Management tools that are available.

This second part of our mini series covering AWS databases is about some of Amazon's advanced solutions. You will learn more about Redshift, the solution for massive petabyte-scale data warehouse, Elasticache, the Redis- and Memcached-based solution for in-memory cache, and SimpleDB, an easy alternative for NoSQL databases.

Who should take this course

For this beginner course, you'll require no special prerequisites. Nevertheless, some experience with Databases and at least a basic knowledge of the related jargon might be helpful. If you are completely new to the cloud, you might benefit from our introduction to cloud computing course. You might also find the AWS general introduction course interesting if you are not yet that familiar with the AWS cloud platform.

If you want to test your knowledge of the basic topics covered by this course, we strongly suggest you take our quiz questions. And of course, the first part of this course is a must if you want to learn more about the two major DB services on AWS: RDS and DynamoDB