Session 052 — Aurora: Serverless, Global Database and Differences vs Standard RDS
Aurora architecture with shared cluster volume, Aurora Serverless with ACU scaling, Global Database for cross-region DR, and fundamental differences vs standard RDS.
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Session 051 — RDS: Multi-AZ, Read Replicas, RDS Proxy and Performance Insights
Multi-AZ DB Instance vs DB Cluster vs Read Replicas, RDS Proxy for connection pooling, Performance Insights and transition to CloudWatch Database Insights.
Session 050 — EKS: Karpenter — Dynamic Node Provisioning and NodePools
Karpenter architecture vs Cluster Autoscaler, Helm installation with IAM, NodePool and EC2NodeClass with instance constraints, automatic consolidation, and decision criteria for each approach.
Session 049 — EKS: Managed Add-ons — VPC CNI, CoreDNS and EBS CSI Driver
EKS managed add-ons with categories and field management, VPC CNI with Prefix Delegation, CoreDNS tuning, and EBS CSI Driver with IRSA for dynamic PersistentVolumes.
Session 048 — EKS: IRSA and Pod Identity — Workload-Level IAM Without Static Credentials
IRSA OIDC flow with ProjectedServiceAccountToken and STS AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity, EKS Pod Identity with add-on and ABAC session tags, and decision criteria for each approach.