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Phase 6 · Database Services

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Relational Databases in the Cloud (RDS)

Part of the Cloud Computing Roadmap.

Summary

Managed relational database services (RDS, Cloud SQL, Azure SQL) handle patching, backups, and failover for you — running MySQL, PostgreSQL, or similar without managing the underlying server yourself.

How to Learn This

  • 1Launch a free-tier managed relational database and connect to it.
  • 2Learn what a managed database handles for you versus a self-hosted one on a VM.
  • 3Compare the setup effort of RDS versus installing PostgreSQL manually on an EC2 instance.

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NoSQL Databases (DynamoDB, Cosmos DB)

More topics in Database Services

NoSQL Databases (DynamoDB, Cosmos DB)Database Replication & High AvailabilityDatabase Backups & SnapshotsRead Replicas & Scaling ReadsDatabase Migration BasicsCaching Layers (ElastiCache / Redis)Data Warehousing (Redshift, BigQuery)Choosing the Right DatabaseDatabase Security
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