16. DMS security – IAM, encryption and networking Now let’s talk about DMs security. So, just like other AWS services, DMs uses Im for managing DMs access and resource permissions. You can encrypt DMs endpoints using SSL certificates. So you can assign a certificate to an endpoint via the DMs console or using the API. […]

7. DMS tasks and task assessment reports Now let’s talk about DMs tasks or the replication tasks. So these let you specify the migration options as we have already seen in the demo. So you can provide table mappings or transformation rules, you can define filters to migrate data selectively and you can also define […]

1. Database migration overview All right, in this section we are going to talk about database migration, DMs and Sat. And this is a very important topic as far as the certification exam is concerned, as a good part of the exam would contain questions about migration, DMs and Sat. So let’s begin, shall we? […]

1. Encryption and Snapshots Okay. Now we’d like to discuss Kms key encryption as well as snapshot and encrypted snapshots in the database world. So follow along with me. So anytime you hear encryption, obviously it’s going to be around Kms. It’s an easy way to control access to your data. And then it is […]

7. CloudFormation Mappings Now let’s talk about mappings. Mappings are fixed variables within your cloud formation template. They have to be hard coded. They’re very handy if you need to hardcore some values based on different environments you’re in. So dev versus prod or regions such as exist regions or AMI types, etc. And as […]

4. YAML Crash Course So YAML is what we use all across AWS for many types, also for confirmation. And so cloud formation supports YAML and JSON. And these are basically some scripting languages or data languages that you can use for confirmation. And to be honest, I’ll be very, very honest with you, jason […]

1. CloudFormation Overview We are getting to the fascinating section of CloudFormation and cloud formation is one of my favorite topic in AWS. It is something I could talk about for hours and hours, but I’ll try to make it short for you and for this exam. So, infrastructure is good, what is it? Well, […]

1. VPC Section Structure Okay, so first let’s get an introduction to VPC and subnets. So VPC is a virtual private cloud, which means it’s a private network that is within the AWS cloud that allows you to deploy your resources within it. And a VPC is a regional resource. So if you have two […]

1. AWS Lambda Architectures So now let’s talk about how we can use lambda to do some automations with our databases. So number one is that lambda can be used to react to events happening within your database using CloudWatch events or also called Amazon EventBridge. So RDS for example, will have events whenever we […]

1. Exam Guide & Sample Questions In this section, let’s discuss a little bit about the database specialty exam format and some of the sample questions. All right, here I am on the certified database specialty home page on the AWS website. So here you can see the exam guide as well as the sample […]