AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02) Exam Prep Course - 2021 UPDATED! - Amazon Aurora

The video tutorial discusses Amazon's Aurora database, highlighting its features, scalability, high availability, and replica support. Aurora is a relational database optimized for online transaction processing, offering compatibility with MySQL and improved performance. It can scale from 10 GB to 64 TB and supports up to 32 virtual CPUs and 244 GiB of RAM. Aurora ensures high availability with multiple DB copies across availability zones and supports up to 15 Aurora replicas with automatic failover. The tutorial emphasizes the importance of understanding these features for selecting the right database solution.

What is one of the main optimizations of Aurora as a database?

• Data mining

• Data warehousing

• Batch processing

• Online transaction processing

How does Aurora's performance compare to MySQL?

• It performs similarly to MySQL

• It is twice as fast as MySQL

• It has up to five times better performance than MySQL

• It is slower than MySQL

What is the maximum storage size Aurora can scale up to?

• 32 terabytes

• 64 terabytes

• 256 terabytes

• 128 terabytes

How many virtual CPUs can Aurora utilize at maximum?

• 16

• 64

• 32

• 128

What is the minimum number of availability zones Aurora is spread across?

• Three

• Two

• Four

• One

How many Aurora replicas can you have at most?

• 10

• 20

• 5

• 15

What is a key feature of Aurora that helps in exam scenarios?

• It starts at 5 gigabytes in size

• It is a non-relational database

• It scales up to 64 terabytes and supports MySQL communications

• It supports NoSQL databases