Configuring Operational Parameters for AWS Databases

Difficulty: Intermediate

Duration: 1 minute and 57 seconds

Students: 950

Rating: 5/5

This lesson explores how to configure operational parameters for AWS Databases. We will cover some effective strategies for tuning your RDS databases to receive the most benefit for your workloads and we'll also dive into what parameter groups are, how parameter groups work, and some edge cases to watch out for.

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Learning Objectives

Create your own parameter groups and apply them to an RDS database
Understand how parameter groups affect RDS instances and in what situations they are beneficial

Intended Audience

This lecture should be attended by those who are looking to further their database knowledge into the intermediate stages, or by those looking to understand the mechanisms behind tuning RDS databases.

Prerequisites

This lecture will talk about some of the more advanced ideas around Amazon RDS and databases in general, so it is highly recommended that you have a moderate to strong background in Amazon RDS and Relational databases.