December 2027
Intermediate
400 pages
1h 45m
English
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Chapter 2. Creating and Configuring DSQL Clusters
In the previous chapter, you reviewed the distributed database landscape and positioned DSQL within it. Now it’s time to get hands-on with DSQL. By the end of this chapter, you’ll have a running DSQL cluster, understand how to connect to it, and know how to provision clusters through infrastructure as code.
If you’ve ever set up an AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) instance or an Aurora cluster, you’ll notice something immediately: there’s dramatically less to configure with DSQL. No instance class to choose, no storage to allocate, no replicas to set up, no parameter groups to tune. A DSQL cluster is an endpoint, a few settings, and you’re done. That simplicity is the point—but it also means the decisions you do make carry more weight.
Prerequisites
In order to effectively follow along in this chapter, you’ll need to ensure you have a few things configured:
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An AWS account with Identity Access Management (IAM) permissions to create DSQL resources. The
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