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Securing databases against failures

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Securing databases against failures

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Databases are key to almost every solution. AWS has many database offerings, but the most important and commonly used ones include Amazon RDS or Relational Database Service, Amazon Aurora, which is also a relational database and available as part of RDS, and Amazon DynamoDB, which is a non-relational database. To ensure your applications are resilient and highly available, it is essential to secure databases against failures. Let's explore the features that can help you do this, starting with read replicas. This is a feature available with Amazon RDS. A read replica is a read-only copy of a database instance. You can reduce the load on your primary instance by routing read request to the read replica. Also, in case of failure, you can promote the read replica to become the primary instance. This feature can be useful for read-heavy applications, such as news portals that host articles and blog posts and e-commerce applications where users access product details. Amazon Aurora has a…

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