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AWS database services

AWS database services

- [Lecturer] AWS offers a variety of purpose-built databases for all your application needs, from relational, NoSQL, in-memory, data warehouse, and other database types. If you need a relational database, you can use Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora. These databases have four key properties, atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability, or ACID for short. These properties guarantee the data integrity of your transactions. Amazon Redshift is also a type of a relational database that is primarily used as a data warehouse. For a non-relational or NoSQL database, you can choose between Amazon DynamoDB or DocumentDB as your data store that provides a flexible schema. For in-memory databases or caching, you can either select Amazon ElastiCache for Redis or Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached. AWS offers other databases for specialized workloads as well, namely Amazon Keyspaces, Amazon Neptune, Amazon Timestream, Amazon QLDB, and…

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