Knowledge of:

  • AWS global infrastructure (for example, Availability Zones, AWS Regions)
  • Caching strategies and services (for example, Amazon ElastiCache)
  • Data access patterns (for example, read-intensive compared with write-intensive)
  • Database capacity planning (for example, capacity units, instance types, Provisioned IOPS)
  • Database connections and proxies
  • Database engines with appropriate use cases (for example, heterogeneous migrations, homogeneous migrations)
  • Database replication (for example, read replicas)
  • Database types and services (for example, serverless, relational comparedwith non-relational, in-memory)

Skills in:

  • Configuring read replicas to meet business requirements
  • Designing database architectures
  • Determining an appropriate database engine (for example, MySQL compared with PostgreSQL)
  • Determining an appropriate database type (for example, Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB)
  • Integrating caching to meet business requirements
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