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Aurora
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>Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL database service
> 5 times throughput of Mysql and 3 times throughput of Postgres
>Can scale up to 128TB
>It replicates in 3 Availability Zones and can have 15 low latency read-replicas.
>Continuous backup to S3

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Aurora DB cluster
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Primary DB Instance == one primary DB instance which performs both read and write
operations to the cluster volume.
Aurora Replica = connect to the same storage volume that the primary DB connects,
and only reads are supported.

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Redshift
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> uses columnar data storage

> ideal for data warehousing and analytics.
> for Online Analytical Processing (OLAP),
> does not require any indexes or materialized views.

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Cluster in Redshift
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>a leader node and one or more compute nodes.

> The leader node, after forming the plan, executes it parallelly with other nodes
and returns the result to the application.
> two types of nodes, namely, Dense Storage (DS) and Dense Compute (DC), which is
storage optimized and compute optimized, respectively.
> in a cluster, we can have up to 128 compute nodes.
> Massive parallel processing is employed in the nodes.

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ElasticCache
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> in-memory data store in the cloud
> for heavy read applications like gaming, social networking, media sharing,
recommendation engine, and Q&A portals
> compatible with Redis and Memcached.

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TRYOUT
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Create a Redshift cluster of the following type through AWS CLI:

dc2.large multinode
6 compute clusters
KMS encryption enabled