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05 – Cloud Databases

Cloud providers offer managed databases so you focus more on data and less on servers.

📌 Overview

  • Understand the value of managed services
  • Learn common patterns across AWS, GCP, and Azure
  • Know when to choose PaaS databases vs self-managed

☁️ Providers

[[AWS]]

  • Learn core services: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift
  • Understand basics of deployment, scaling, backups

[[GCP]]

  • Learn Cloud SQL, Spanner, Bigtable, BigQuery
  • Understand globally consistent systems like Spanner

[[Azure]]

  • Learn Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Synapse
  • Map workloads to appropriate services

🔗 Connections

  • Relate to [[02 - RDBMS]] and [[03 - NoSQL]] – many managed DBs are those engines
  • Connect with [[04 - Big Data]] through cloud data warehouses and lakes
  • Tie into [[08 - Modern Databases]] for globally-distributed SQL