This lab gives learners the opportunity to perform a migration from a standard Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) MySQL platform to an Amazon Aurora MySQL cluster with even more robust high availability features.
Level
Intermediate
Duration
1 Hours 0 Minutes
Course Objectives
By the end of this lab, you will be able to do the following:
- Create an Aurora read replica cluster.
- Promote the Aurora read replica cluster to a standalone DB cluster.
- Add an additional reader instance to the cluster with highest failover priority.
- Perform a "failover" on the cluster.
Intended Audience
This course is intended for:
Data Engineers
Developers
Infrastructure Engineers
Prerequisites
This lab requires:
- A basic knowledge of AWS services as defined in the AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials course.
- That you should be comfortable with navigating the AWS Management Console.
- A good understanding of SQL databases and running simple SQL queries.
Course Outline
Task 1: Explore the lab environment and connect to the database
Task 2: Create an Aurora read replica cluster
Task 3: Promote the Aurora read replica cluster to a standalone DB cluster
Task 4: Add an additional reader instance to the Aurora cluster with highest failover priority
Task 5: Perform a "failover" on the cluster