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AWS Tools for PowerShell 6

You're reading from   AWS Tools for PowerShell 6 Administrate, maintain, and automate your infrastructure with ease

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
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ISBN-13 9781785884078
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ramesh Waghmare Ramesh Waghmare
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Preface 1. PowerShell Essentials FREE CHAPTER 2. The AWS Overview 3. Installing PowerShell Core and AWS Tools 4. AWS Identity and Access Management 5. AWS Virtual Private Cloud 6. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud 7. AWS Simple Storage Service 8. Elastic Load Balancer 9. Auto Scaling 10. Laying Foundation for RDS Databases 11. DB Instance Administration and Management 12. Working with RDS Read Replicas 13. AWS Elastic Beanstalk 14. AWS CloudFormation 15. AWS CloudWatch 16. AWS Resource Auditing

Understanding maintenance windows

RDS is a fully managed service. AWS take cares of regular patching and backups as part of this service. It is critical for you to understand how AWS does the regular patching and backups when you work with RDS. Understanding the maintenance schedule will help you minimize the impact on your database workload. Otherwise, you may have no idea why your RDS has intermittent outage. Broadly, there are two types of maintenance windows:

  • Weekly maintenance window: Pay very close attention to the RDS maintenance window. This is something you define at the time of DB instance launch or you can modify it later. AWS uses your preferred maintenance window for software patching and upgrades. In addition to the AWS maintenance items, any pending changes to the DB instance configuration will be applied during these maintenance windows. There could be a noticeable...
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