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Step-by-Step Guide to Creating an AWS RDS Database Instance

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 Amazon Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Instead of managing servers, patching OS, and handling backups manually, AWS RDS takes care of the heavy lifting so you can focus on building applications and data pipelines. In this blog, we’ll walk through how to create an AWS RDS instance , key configuration choices, and best practices you should follow in real-world projects. What is AWS RDS? AWS RDS is a managed database service that supports popular relational engines such as: Amazon Aurora (MySQL / PostgreSQL compatible) MySQL PostgreSQL MariaDB Oracle SQL Server With RDS, AWS manages: Database provisioning Automated backups Software patching High availability (Multi-AZ) Monitoring and scaling Prerequisites Before creating an RDS instance, make sure you have: An active AWS account Proper IAM permissions (RDS, EC2, VPC) A basic understanding of: ...

How to Decode Python Exception Messages Like a Pro

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While developing python programs, you might see exception messages from python. Here's an explanation to understand each part of the message. Here're tips on how to understand python exceptions. You can find two kinds of exceptions. These are StandardError and StopIteration errors. Here is a chart that shows the types of python errors. Python exceptions class Python exceptions are basically three parts. Reading an error message produced by  Python is not very difficult . The error type, the error description, and the traceback. Understand the python exception message The Error Type There are so many in-built exception types in python. Here is the command to get all the exception types: [x for x in dir(__builtins__) if 'Error' in x] The Error description The text message right after the error type gives us a description of what exactly the problem was. These descriptions are sometimes very accurate, sometimes not. Sample error Traceback (most recent call last):     ...