What is RDS Performance Insights?
This lesson explores Amazon RDS Performance Insights, a performance monitoring and tuning feature that can quickly assess the load on a database hosted inside Amazon RDS and determine when and where to take action.
In this lesson, you will learn what the Performance Insights service is, how it provides meaningful information database load, how to use it, and the costs and security features of the service.
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Learning Objectives
- Obtain a foundational understanding of Amazon RDS Performance Insights
- Learn how Performance Insights measures database load and adds context to AAS (Average Active Sessions)
- Learn how to use Performance Insights
- Understand how to control access to Performance Insights
- Understand the costs associated with using the service
Intended Audience
This lesson is intended for both new and experienced database administrators that need to assess, understand, and optimize the load that users and applications put on an RDS database.
Prerequisites
To get the most out of this lesson, you should have a basic understanding of relational databases, have created at least one RDS database instance, and a working knowledge of the AWS cloud platform.
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