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Demo: Aurora Serverless deployment

Demo: Aurora Serverless deployment

- In this demo, we're going to look at the options for relational databases, specifically serverless deployments. A serverless deployment is going to allow me to ignore setting up a fixed amount of compute and storage and let Amazon manage that. Let me explain. If I go into databases and say, create a database and I don't select Aurora, I'm going to pick Postgre, but not Aurora Postgre. I'm going to select PostgreSQL, part of the relational database service. If I select this option and scroll down and look at the options for production, I can decide where it's going to be placed and the Multi-AZ DB cluster is giving me an option with a primary database and two readable standby instances. I can scroll down further and then set up the size of the compute, how much RAM, CPU, network and storage. Maybe I don't want to manage that. Maybe I'm not sure. Scrolling back up, let's change our mind and say, Aurora PostgreSQL compatible. Now Aurora is clustered, shared storage. Six copies of data…

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