Amazon Aurora High Availability

Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 1 minute and 6 seconds
Students: 6,276
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Interested in learning about Amazon Aurora?

Amazon Aurora is a next generation cloud native relational database, providing unrivalled performance and availability features!!

This lesson explores the various configuration options and techniques that you can use to create highly available Amazon Aurora databases. It starts off by looking at the high availability options available within Amazon Aurora, before diving deeper into more specific features, such as single and multi master setups, read replicas, and how Aurora can be provisioned serverless. Each new topic is accompanied by a real-world demonstration to help you better understand the concepts presented within the lesson.

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Learning Objectives

  • Understand how to provision and configure Amazon Aurora in a manner that ensures it is highly available and able to serve all read and write requests.

Intended Audience

This lesson is intended for those responsible for architecting Aurora database setups, with an emphasis on high availability.

Prerequisites

To get the most from this lesson, you should be familiar with basic SQL database concepts. If required, consider taking our "Database Fundamentals for AWS" lesson first.

Source Code

The following GitHub repository is referenced within this lesson: