Syllaro Academy

AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate

Scaling RDS and Aurora

Read replicas, storage autoscaling, and RDS Proxy on Amazon RDS, and the shared cluster volume that changes the rules for Aurora: reader endpoints, Aurora Auto Scaling, and Serverless capacity.

Intermediate 28 minutes 5 Learning Objectives
  1. Distinguish a Multi-AZ standby, an RDS read replica, and an Aurora Replica by replication method and by what each one is for
  2. Diagnose replica lag and predict what stale reads do to an application that routes queries to a replica
  3. State the exact conditions RDS storage autoscaling requires, and the one thing it can never do
  4. Explain what RDS Proxy solves and where it cannot be attached
  5. Configure Aurora Auto Scaling and Aurora Serverless capacity, and predict how each responds to a load change