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Amazon RDS: Best Practices

This course will teach the best practices of the AWS RDS service. Join the onboarding of an existing database and experience what AWS RDS provides for managing databases in the cloud.

Advanced
3h 22m
(18)

Created by Ian Fogelman

Last Updated Oct 20, 2025

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  • Course

Amazon RDS: Best Practices

This course will teach the best practices of the AWS RDS service. Join the onboarding of an existing database and experience what AWS RDS provides for managing databases in the cloud.

Advanced
3h 22m
(18)

Created by Ian Fogelman

Last Updated Oct 20, 2025

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What you'll learn

RDS allows you to launch many database backends quickly with AWS. In this course, Amazon RDS: Best Practices, you'll learn about the AWS RDS service from onboarding an on-premises database to the cloud. First, you'll discover how the relational database service helps with backups and snapshots. Next, you'll explore how to manage the different database environments inside your VPC. Finally, you'll learn how to effectively administer your RDS instances. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the knowledge and first-hand experience with RDS management techniques to help prepare for the AWS Database specialization exam.

Amazon RDS: Best Practices
Advanced
3h 22m
(18)
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Ian Fogelman - Pluralsight course - Amazon RDS: Best Practices
Ian Fogelman
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Ian is a database enthusiast with particular expertise in the Microsoft data stack. Other technologies that Ian has expert level experience with include ETL, Python development, cloud architecture and systems automation. Ian holds the Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) for data management and analytics as well as the AWS Solution Architect associate certifications. Ian also writes for multiple technical blogs including SuperFunSQL.com which he founded in 2019.

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