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Amazon RDS event notification

Amazon RDS event notification - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Amazon RDS event notification

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- [Instructor] In this lecture, we'll briefly discuss the Amazon RDS event notification feature and its various use cases. We will also learn its various source types and targets to which you could send notifications. Let's first discuss why event notification is important in AWS. We all know that the database is a critical component of any enterprise system. And this is why it should be adequately monitored for any potential issues. Imagine this scenario. A cloud engineer accidentally changes the security group of an Amazon Aurora database in your production environment. All of a sudden, your enterprise application immediately experiences a critical error since it can't connect to the database. You rush in to investigate the issue by checking the logs, ensuring that the database is up and running, and reviewing the latest RDS API actions in your CloudTrail console. These actions can take several minutes or an hour to execute. The situation can be aggravated if the cloud engineer…

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