Design Cost-Optimized Database Solutions

After exploring strategies for cost-optimizing storage and compute, you can now turn your attention to the database layer of your cloud architecture. Databases are a critical component of most applications, and their costs can quickly escalate if not properly managed. In this section, you will dive into techniques for designing cost-optimized database solutions on AWS. You will start by evaluating the various database services offered by AWS, such as Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, and Amazon DynamoDB, and learn the key factors to consider when selecting the most appropriate service for your workloads. From there, you will explore specific cost-optimization strategies for each database service, covering topics such as right-sizing instances, leveraging pricing models, and optimizing data models and access patterns. By the end of this section, you will have a comprehensive understanding of how to design database architectures that balance performance...