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Essential AWS Services for Database Administrators to Learn

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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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How to create AWS RDS PostgreSQL Database

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How to create AWS rds PostgreSQL Database

 

In this article, we are going to talk about detailed steps to create an AWS Postgres database instance on AWS cloud. Amazon RDS has two options for PostgreSQL. The first one is the normal AWS Postgres RDS database and Another one is aurora PostgreSQL. AWS Postgres gives you a lot of performance gain and HA options comparing with the normal data center (DC) database. You can get AWS Postgres with few steps. I have mentioned all possible details in the post about AWS PostgreSQL. If you need any AWS PostgreSQL pricing details you can open the AWS calculator portal and can get details about estimated the cost.

In case if you have any question let me know my comments. Let’s start creating an AWS PostgreSQL RDS database instance.

 

 

1# Login to AWS console and Search for ‘RDS‘.

 

 

#2. Click on create on Database

 

 

#3. Select PostgreSQL .

 

 

 

#4.  Select the database template. In my case, I have selected ‘Free tier’ you can select ‘Production’ or ‘Dev/Test‘ according to your requirement. Production and Dev/test will not be free from the day one it will be chargeable.

 

 

#5. Give some meaningful database name and Master database username with password.

 

 

#6. I have selected the free database classes which come with the free tier.

 

 

#7. Based on your database storage needs to select the ‘Allocated space’.

 

 

#8. If your database is business-critical you can choose a Multi-Availability Zone for database high availability.

 

 

#9. Chose the default VPC. If you are configuring it for Production or development chose the appropriate VPC using the dropdown button.

 

 

[su_box title=”IMP Note for Additional connectivity configuration” box_color=”#fe2227″ title_color=”#101112″]In case if you like to access the database from your laptop/Desktop. Select the option ‘Publicly Accessible‘ to yes.[/su_box]

 

 

 

#10. Chose the option according to your application and the AWS ecosystem setup.

 

 

#11.  To enable  Cloudwatch logs or backup you can configure ‘Additional configuration‘.

 

 

#12. Click on ‘Create Database‘

 

 

#13.  It will take a few minutes to create database.

 

 

#14.  You can view the database credentials after clicking on ‘View credentials details‘ .

 

 

 

#15. You will see this message once your database is ready for action.

 

 

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