# Amazon Web Services

## 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](https://adayinthelifeof.nl/2020/05/20/aws.html) - Joshua Thijssen
* [Top 10 security items to improve in your AWS account](https://aws.amazon.com/it/blogs/security/top-10-security-items-to-improve-in-your-aws-account/) - Nathan Case

### Blogs

* [AWS Blog](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/)

### Courses

* [AWS Digital Training](https://aws.amazon.com/training/digital/)
* [AWS Online Courses](https://www.amazon.com/b/?ie=UTF8\&node=14297978011)
* [AWS Skill Builder](https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/learn)

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### Videos

* [Your First Week on Amazon Web Services](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CiHBcqw6zc) - Miles Ward

### Websites

* [ec2.shop](https://ec2.shop/) - EC2 instance price API
* [flAWS](http://flaws.cloud/)
* [flAWS 2](http://flaws2.cloud/)
* [LocalStack](https://localstack.cloud/) - A fully functional local cloud stack
* [wut.dev](https://wut.dev) - AWS Resource Explorer
