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Essential AWS Services for Database Administrators to Learn

Why AWS?

Cloud is becoming a vital part of Database Administration because it provides various database services & Infrastructure to run Database Ecosystems instantly. AWS (Amazon Web Services) is one of the pioneers in the Cloud according to the Gartner magic quadrant. Knowing more cloud infrastructure technologies is going to give more mileage to your Administrator career. In this article, you will find some of the AWS services which Database Administrators should know as they are basic to run Database opration.

Essential AWS Services List For Database Administrator (DBA)

Network
VPCs
Subnets
Elastic IPs
Internet Gateways
Network ACLs
Route Tables
Security Groups
Private Subnets
Public Subnets
AWS Direct Connect

Virtual Machine 
EC2
AWS Work Space

Storage
EBS
EFS
S3

Database as Services (RDS)
MySQL / MariaDB
PostgreSQL
Oracle
Micrsoft SQL Server
AWS Aurora PostgreSQL/MySQL

Database Managed Services
AWS Dynamo DB
AWS Elasticsearch 
Amazon DocumentDB

Messaging & Event Base Processing 
Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)

 

Warehousing/ OLAP /Analytics Stagging DB
AWS Redshift

 

Monitoring 
Cloud watch
Amazon Grafana
Amazon Prometheus

 

Email Service
Amazon Simple Notification Service

Security 
IAM
Secrets Manager

Database Task Automation
AWS Batch
AWS Lambda
Cloud Formation

Command-line interface (CLI) to Manage AWS Services
AWSCLI

Migration 
Database Migration Service

Budget 
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Budgets

Some other Services & Combination worth of Exploring

Bastion Host For DBA
MongoDB running on EC2
ELK (Elastic Search , LogStach, Kibana) running on EC2
Tunnels for Non stranded ports for Database Connections for more security
pg_pool or pg_Bouncer for PostgreSQL Databases

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AWS Services and their Azure alternatives 

AWS vs Azure Service Names

In this article, I have listed  AWS services and their Azure alternatives with Name. AWS and Azure are becoming the most vital choice while building cloud infrastructure. I know most of the AWS services and working with them and trying to develop knowledge about Azure services which can be used as alternatives to AWS services. For example, people ask what is the s3 equivalent in azure? Mean to ask if I want to stage my files like AWS s3 which Azure service can be used.

AWS Services and their Azure Alternatives

 

Service Name Amazon AWS Microsoft Azure
Cloud VM/ Compute AWS EC2 Virtual Machine
PaaS Elastic Beanstalk Apps Service
PaaS Elastic Beanstalk Cloud service
Compute AWS Lambda Azure Function
Filestore / File staging AWS S3 Azure Storage
Directory Service AWS Cognito Azure Active Directory
Notification AWS SNS, SQS Event Grid, Service Bus
Analytics AWS Kinesis, Athena Azure Stream Analytics, Event Hub
Developer tools AWS Developer tools Application Insights
API AWS API Gateway API Management, Azure Functions, Proxies
Block storage AWS EBS Azure Blob Storage
Relational Database Service AWS Relational Database Service Azure SQL Database
Big Data/ Hadoop AWS EMR Azure HDInsight
Monitoring / Alarm AWS cloud watch azure monitor
File Archival AWS Glacier Azure Archive storage
CDN (Content Delivery Network) AWS Cloudfront Delivery Network
File System AWS EFS Azure Files
Kubernatice AWS EKS Kubernetes services
Managed WareHouse AWS Redshift SQL WareHouse
Orchestration AWS Step Functions Azure Logic Apps
Docker/Container AWS ECS Azure Container Services
video analysis Amazon Rekognition Azure Cognitive Services
IoT AWS IoT Azure IoT
ETL (Extraction Transformation and Loading ) AWS glue azure data catalog
DNS AWS Route 53 Azure DNS
Virtual Network AWS VPC Azure VNet
Blockchain Amazon Managed Blockchain Azure Blockchain Service
Machine Learning Amazon SageMaker
Amazon CodeGuru
Amazon Comprehend
Amazon Forecast
Amazon Fraud Detector
Amazon Kendra
Amazon Lex
Amazon Machine Learning
Amazon Personalize
Amazon Polly
Amazon Rekognition
Amazon Textract
Amazon Transcribe
Amazon Translate
AWS DeepLens
AWS DeepRacer
Amazon Augmented AI
AWS DeepComposer
Azure Machine Learning services
Billing Per Hour Per Minute

 

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