In this lesson, we will provide a framework to help you evaluate appropriate database deployment solutions on AWS using either the Amazon Relational Database Service, RDS, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2 instances.
Learning Objectives
- Choose between using Amazon RDS or EC2 instances for your relational database deployments
Intended Audience
- Anyone who is responsible for defining and implementing relational database solution architectures in AWS
- Anyone who is looking to migrate an existing application that uses a relational database backend to the AWS Cloud
Prerequisites
- A basic understanding of relational databases, Amazon RDS, and Amazon EC2
- For more information about these services, I encourage you to check out these lectures: