Introduction
AWS offers fully managed relational and NoSQL database services, as well as in-memory caching and a petabyte-scale data warehouse solution. This article presents an overview of the database services' products. Before knowing about Amazon Database Services, let us understand AWS and Database.
AWS
AWS (Amazon Web Services) is the most sophisticated and widely used cloud platform globally, with over 200 fully-featured services available from data centers around the globe. AWS is being used by millions of customers, including the fastest-growing startups, most giant corporations, and major government agencies, to lower costs, improve agility, and support innovation.
Database
A database is a set of data that has been organized to allow for simple access, administration, and updating. Data records or files containing information, such as sales transactions, customer data, financials, and product information, are often stored in computer databases.
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Types of AWS Database Services
There are the following different types of database services provided by AWS:
- AMAZON RELATIONAL DATABASE SERVICE (AMAZON RDS)
- AMAZON DYNAMODB
- AMAZON AURORA
- AMAZON REDSHIFT
- AMAZON ELASTICACHE
AMAZON RELATIONAL DATABASE SERVICE (AMAZON RDS)
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) provides a fully managed relational database service that supports many open-source and commercial database engines. It's a low-cost service that enables organizations to quickly establish secure, highly available, fault-tolerant, production-ready databases. Because Amazon RDS handles time-consuming administrative duties like backups, software patching, monitoring, scaling, and replication, organizational resources may concentrate on revenue-generating applications and business.
AMAZON DYNAMODB
Amazon DynamoDB is a high-performance, scalable NoSQL database service for any applications that require consistent, single-digit millisecond latency. It's a fully managed database that can handle both document and key/value data. Its flexible data model and dependable performance make it ideal for mobile, web, gaming, ad-tech, IoT, and various other applications.
AMAZON AURORA
Amazon RDS fully manages Amazon Aurora. It is a cloud-based relational database engine. Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database engine that combines the availability and performance of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity of use and low cost of open source databases. All administration tasks like database setup, patching, backups, and more are automated because RDS fully manages Amazon Aurora.
AMAZON REDSHIFT
Amazon Redshift is a rapid, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes structured data analysis simple and cost-effective. Amazon Redshift has a standard SQL interface that allows organizations to utilize their existing business analytics tools. Amazon Redshift is able to deliver rapid query performance by utilizing columnar storage technology, which enhances I/O efficiency, and parallelizes queries across numerous nodes. Most administrative tasks associated with installing, establishing, and monitoring a cloud data warehouse may be automated using the Amazon Redshift architecture.
AMAZON ELASTICACHE
ElastiCache is a web service by Amazon that makes deploying, running, and scaling an in-memory cache in the cloud simple. The service enhances web application performance by letting organizations get information from fast, controlled in-memory caches rather than relying only on slower, disk-based databases. Amazon ElastiCache supports Memcached and Redis cache engines as of this writing.
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