Amazon Web Services

https://aws.amazon.com

Notes

Relational Database Service (RDS)

• It allows you to spin up a relational database and have Amazon take care of the upgrades/patches/backups/etc. (database-as-a-service)

• RDS instances are approximately double the price of an equivalent EC2 instance where you could self-host your RDBMS, but you'll most likely save money on developer time around managing the database

• Supported databases are:

  • MySQL

  • Postgres

  • MariaDB

  • Oracle (more expensive due to licensing fees)

  • SQL Server (more expensive due to licensing fees)

  • Amazon Aurora (fully compatible with Postgres and MySQL)

Resources

Articles

• Amazon Web Services - Joshua Thijssen

• Top 10 security items to improve in your AWS account - Nathan Case

Blogs

• AWS Blog

Courses

• AWS Digital Training

• AWS Online Courses

• AWS Skill Builder

Images

Videos

• Your First Week on Amazon Web Services - Miles Ward

Websites

• ec2.shop - EC2 instance price API

• flAWS

• flAWS 2

• LocalStack - A fully functional local cloud stack

• wut.dev - AWS Resource Explorer