Chapter 5Database Services

THE AWS CERTIFIED SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT ASSOCIATE EXAM OBJECTIVES COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER MAY INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING:

  • Domain 2: Design Resilient Architectures
  • Domain 3: Design High-Performing Architectures
  • Domain 4: Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

Introduction

Most applications and services depend on at least one database. A database allows an application to store, organize, and quickly retrieve data. Although you could use flat files to store data, they become increasingly slow to search as the amount of data grows. By relying on a database to perform these tasks, application developers can focus on the application without having to directly interact with a filesystem to store and ...

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