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AWS Databases

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Summary

AWS provides a wide variety of databases to meet the needs of the workload, from relational, key-value, in-memory, to data warehouses. Each type has different strengths: relational for consistent transactions, NoSQL for scalability and flexible schemes, in-memory for extreme speed. Understanding these characters is key to choosing the right database service.

Key points

A relational database stores data in a connected table
NoSQL is superior to flexible and large-scale schemes
In-memory like ElastiCache for data while super fast
Data warehouses like Redshift for analytics

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