RDS(Relational DB Service)

There is Amazon RDS for installing specific DB

The only thing you need to do its managing schema and managing the data. Amazon doesn't touch data

You do need to provision scale

Use an EBS Volume as Storage

See Aurora for AWS managed

Can host multiple databases and such on one instance

Connection

Need host, port, and username and password to connect with some dbtool like tableplus and pgadmin

Code connects also need database name

Also need to modify RDS security in the RDS settings to allow external access, then select the RDS security group, change the security group inbound rules to allow all traffic from all sources PostgresSQL.

Creation

Set admin user and password

1) Select Engine(aurora, mysql, postgres)

2) use case: high availbility or cheaper

3) DB Details: size , initial settings about username and password

4) Advanced: VPC, Security, Encryption, backup, monitoring, logs

Read Replicas node

Secondary Host would handle load in case of failure}

No charge for backups up to 100%

Encryption at rest free, done at volume level with RDS connecting with KMS so app changes

Multi-AZ(Avaliability Zones)

• allow great availiability during maintence and fails

• fallover takes about 1-2 minutes

• Writes go to both and twice the cost

• Backups improved

Read Replicas

• part of instance and only handle read queries to offload traffic from main

• "eventually consistent" so writes on primary, then asyncronously updates the replica, so query could get stale data

• Check replication lag in the replication tab of the master

• Create from the options of any database instance, promote to a standalone instance from the options of the replica thing(irreversible)

Automated Backups

EBS has a snapshot stored everyday, incremental snapshots only store difference, brief I/o suspension to uptown few minutes

Transaction Logs are then stored every 5 minutes so you can then get your db to any pt in time :0

Restoring Snapshot

Must create a new instance

Snapshots can be sent to new region

Scaling

Vertical scale by modifying db to add storage or instance type(downtime), multi-az has minimal downtime

• t2.small to medium took about 5 minutes, multi a-z had about a minute of downtime as fallover kicked in

Horizontal scale by adding read replicas