Overview of Differences Between AWS Database Types

This lesson provides a high-level overview of the managed database offerings available from AWS.

It covers relational and non-relational databases, how they work, their strengths, and what workloads are best suited for them.

It includes an overview and the characteristics of non-relational databases as well as what NoSQL means and why it’s important to application development.

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Learning Objectives

• Gain a general understanding of databases within AWS
• Learn about non-relational databases and how they can be used
• Understand the characteristics of NoSQL databases and how they can be used for application development
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of the different types of managed NoSQL databases on AWS

Intended Audience

This lesson is intended for people that are relatively new to relational and non-relational databases and want to gain an understanding of what types of databases are available on AWS.

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this lesson, you should ideally have a very basic knowledge of relational and non-relational databases and previous experience with AWS.