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CHOOSE IT WHEN

What job does it solve?

Connection churn or bursts threaten the database even though query CPU and I/O capacity are adequate.

DO NOT CONFUSE IT WITH

Where does it stop?

Do not use it as a result cache, read replica, writer-capacity increase, or Multi-AZ replacement.

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Closely related services

• Amazon RDSManaged relational database engines with automated infrastructure operations.
• Amazon AuroraAWS-built relational database compatible with MySQL or PostgreSQL and designed for distributed managed storage.
• AWS LambdaRuns event-driven function code on managed infrastructure and scales executions within configured limits.

IN THIS COURSE

Lessons that mention it

• Lesson 22Relational engines, replicas, connections, and proxies
• Lesson 23Database caching, invalidation, and source-of-truth boundaries
• Lesson 26Keep data available—and recover the past
• Lesson 29Make a legacy workload safer without breaking it
• Lesson 41Database type, capacity, and cache economics
• Lesson 42Database connections, replicas, retention, engines, and migration economics

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