Week 4 Worklog

Week 4 Objectives:

  • Learn Amazon RDS: managed relational database service, Multi-AZ, and read replicas.
  • Understand Amazon ElastiCache and DynamoDB basics.

Tasks to be carried out this week:

DayTaskStart DateCompletion DateReference Material
2- Learn RDS concepts: supported engines (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aurora)
- Multi-AZ deployments and automatic failover
06/05/202606/05/2026https://cloudjourney.awsstudygroup.com/
3- RDS Read Replicas for read scaling
- RDS backup and restore: automated backups, snapshots
07/05/202607/05/2026https://cloudjourney.awsstudygroup.com/
4- Practice:
  + Launch RDS MySQL instance in private subnet
  + Connect from EC2
  + Create snapshot and restore
08/05/202608/05/2026https://cloudjourney.awsstudygroup.com/
5- Amazon DynamoDB: tables, items, attributes, partition key
- DynamoDB streams and global tables
09/05/202609/05/2026https://cloudjourney.awsstudygroup.com/
6- Practice:
  + Create DynamoDB table
  + CRUD operations via Console and CLI
  + Review week 4
10/05/202610/05/2026https://cloudjourney.awsstudygroup.com/

Week 4 Achievements:

  • Successfully completed: Learn RDS concepts: supported engines (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aurora)

  • Successfully completed: Multi-AZ deployments and automatic failover

  • Successfully completed: RDS Read Replicas for read scaling

  • Successfully completed: RDS backup and restore: automated backups, snapshots

  • Successfully completed: Launch RDS MySQL instance in private subnet

  • Successfully completed: Connect from EC2

  • Successfully completed: Create snapshot and restore

  • Successfully completed: Amazon DynamoDB: tables, items, attributes, partition key

  • Successfully completed: DynamoDB streams and global tables

  • Successfully completed: Create DynamoDB table

  • Successfully completed: CRUD operations via Console and CLI

  • Successfully completed: Review week 4