AWS Certified Database - Specialty
Validate your ability to recommend, design, and maintain the optimal AWS database solution to improve performance, reduce costs, and enable innovation.
Earn an industry-recognized credential from AWS that validates your expertise in the breadth of AWS database services and accelerating the use of database technology to drive your organization’s business transformation. Build credibility and confidence by highlighting your ability to design, recommend, and maintain the optimal AWS database solution for a use case.
Abilities Validated by the Certification
Recommended Knowledge and Experience
At least 5 years of experience with database technologies
At least 2 years of hands-on experience working on AWS
Experience and expertise working with on-premises and AWS-Cloud-based relational and nonrelational databases
Domain 1: Workload-Specific Database Design 1.1 Select appropriate database services for specific types of data and workloads 1.2 Determine strategies for disaster recovery and high availability 1.3 Design database solutions for performance, compliance, and scalability 1.4 Compare the costs of database solutions
Domain 2: Deployment and Migration 2.1 Automate database solution deployments 2.2 Determine data preparation and migration strategies 2.3 Execute and validate data migration
Domain 3: Management and Operations 3.1 Determine maintenance tasks and processes 3.2 Determine backup and restore strategies 3.3 Manage the operational environment of a database solution
Domain 4: Monitoring and Troubleshooting 4.1 Determine monitoring and alerting strategies 4.2 Troubleshoot and resolve common database issues 4.3 Optimize database performance
Domain 5: Database Security 5.1 Encrypt data at rest and in transit 5.2 Evaluate auditing solutions 5.3 Determine access control and authentication mechanisms 5.4 Recognize potential security vulnerabilities within database solutions
