AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty 2021 - Hands-On! - Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and Aurora

The video tutorial discusses Amazon RDS, a hosted relational database service, and its suitability for small data applications. It explains the ACID properties crucial for database transactions and highlights Amazon Aurora, a compatible and high-performance option within RDS. Aurora's features, including cost-effectiveness, scalability, and security, are explored, noting its potential to evolve into a big data solution.

Which of the following is NOT a database type supported by RDS?

• PostgreSQL

• MySQL

• MongoDB

• Amazon Aurora

What does the 'A' in ACID compliance stand for?

• Asynchronous

• Accessible

• Atomic

• Available

Which ACID property ensures that a transaction is either fully completed or not executed at all?

• Durability

• Atomicity

• Isolation

• Consistency

Amazon Aurora is compatible with which two database systems?

• SQLite and Cassandra

• Oracle and SQL Server

• MySQL and PostgreSQL

• MariaDB and MongoDB

What is a key security feature of Amazon Aurora?

• No encryption support

• Limited scalability

• Manual backups only

• VPC network isolation