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Liveblog: Introduction to Managed Database Services on AWS

Scott Lowe

I think they were SQL, NoSQL, data warehousing, and something else. You can use ElastiCache as a primary data store, but it is more commonly used as a cache in front of other database offerings (managed or unmanaged). For analytics in a data warehousing environment, Amazon offers Amazon RedShift. Why use managed databases?

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Liveblog: Scaling to Your First 10 Million Users

Scott Lowe

The next step is to add an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and distributing the application across two availability zones—this means 2 web instances and 2 instances of RDS (one active and one standby). This sort of architecture gets you greater scale as well as greater redundancy and fault tolerance. How do we go further?