From the course: AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Cert Prep: 4 Monitoring and Troubleshooting

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Optimizing database performance

Optimizing database performance

- Throughout this chapter, we've been talking about monitoring our AWS database environment. And so what I want to do is wrap up the chapter in this episode, by talking about some tips for performance enhancement and looking at one more monitoring tool that can help you when it comes to the performance of your databases. So when it comes to tips for performance, the first thing is configure your option groups and perimeter groups appropriately. Remember we learned about those in another chapter when we were talking about managing our database system or database management systems. It's in these groups, the option groups and parameter groups, where you can configure specific settings that would normally be available for the DBMS you're using My SQL, SQL server and so forth if you were using it in a regular environment outside of the Cloud. So people often ask where's all that stuff hidden. Well, this is where they…

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