CHAPTER 9
Relational Database Service
Relational Database Service (RDS) is a service that makes it easy to create and manage a database in the cloud. And while EC2 is classified as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), RDS is classified as Platform as a Service (PaaS). This means RDS instances are managed by AWS, eliminating time-consuming activities, such as patching and backups, and allowing you to focus on your application. The tradeoff is that you have limited access to the database and no access to the underlying operating system.
In this chapter we discuss the RDS architecture and learn to launch an SQL Server RDS instance. Next, we will ...
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