What is Amazon RDS and How It Works

In this video, Bart Castle covers getting started with Amazon RDS. This video is largely theoretical — Bart's focusing on the broad concepts of relational data and data storage, and how Amazon RDS fits into that equation. Bart breaks Amazon RDS down into six main topics:

What is Amazon RDS

How to Use RDS

Why Relational Data

Is It Secure

How Much Does it Cost

What About Aurora

Amazon RDS is more than a database, it's an entire database service — a data architecture that removes the burden of planning and administration from your shoulders as a network architect or administrator. Throughout this 13-minute video, Bart explains what Amazon RDS is, how it can help you, and how to decide whether it's the right data solution for your needs.

Amazon RDS isn't just about giving you lots of space to put your data. Amazon RDS covers the provisioning, monitoring and maintenance of your databases. With Amazon RDS, your installation, patching and management is handled automatically. Security enforcement through encryption, authentication and filtering is handled by Amazon RDS. And availability is monitored and optimized behind the scenes for you.

The strength of Amazon RDS lies in separating the duties that go into managing a system to increase efficiency. Amazon RDS is an opportunity to offload the responsibilities and burdens of your relational data storage to Amazon, and Bart explains how to decide if that's the right choice for you.

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[OmgitsdeziLife]

great video! I cant wait to share what I learn here in class!

[ann_uken]

Loved this video! Thank you so much for the explanation.

[ittaster]

Great teaching session as always Bart 👍

[saurabhk]

Thank you for the video. I have a doubt. I have RESTful APIs in angular-based web applications which get/post data to Microsoft SQL DB. After migrating to AWS RDS, do I need to make any changes in those APIs? or in the web application?

[everettscott]

Absolutely top quality presentation and knowledge depth. Many thanks.

[AlaaSaeed]

First thoughts: When did Donald Cerrone get into IT?
Nice video :)

[danielpwerlinger]

I like this Crocodile Dundee guy, more, please.

[abdirahmann]

hey bart, am sorry, did you you just pronounce mariadb as "marayadb", that's insane if you ask me!

[moedweik]

With RDS no access to DB and OS which is not helpful.RDS Custom is better as it covers those. Best thing with RDS is the multi -az feature as you dont need to setup complex high availability and DR like RAC and Dataguard