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Operate and optimize - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Operate and optimize

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- [Instructor] It's important to understand the differences of running a database in AWS versus on premise. Depending on the database service being used, the management of the database can vary greatly. If you opt to rehost your database, your operational overhead is higher. This means you're responsible for tasks such as backups, scalability, and disaster recovery. If you did a database refactoring to a managed service, this will reduce some of the differentiated heavy lifting of running your database on AWS. Additionally, you would gain built-in performance tools such as Amazon RDS, insight to detect performance issues. No matter which migration strategy selected Amazon CloudWatch can be used to collect and act on metrics data. This would include CPU utilization, memory usage, I/O performance, database connections, and more. CloudWatch also has the added benefit of acting on real-time metrics data. This could be, for example, initiating action when a given threshold is crossed…

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