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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 Read CSV file Data in Python

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Here is a way to read  CSV files  in Python pandas. The packages you need to import are numpy and pandas. On the flip side, f or Text files, you don't need to import these special libraries since python by default support it. Python pandas read_csv >>> import numpy as np >>> import pandas as pd To see how pandas handle this kind of data, we'll create a small CSV file in the working directory as ch05_01.csv. white, red, blue, green, animal 1,5,2,3,cat  2,7,8,5,dog  3,3,6,7,horse  2,2,8,3,duck  4,4,2,1,mouse Since this file is comma-delimited , you can use the read_csv() function to read its content and convert it to a dataframe object. >>> csvframe = pd.read_csv('ch05_01.csv') >>> csvframe white red blue green animal 0 1 5 2 3 cat 1 2 7 8 5 dog 2 3 3 6 7 horse 3 2 2 8 3 duck 4 4 4 2 1 mouse Python reading text files Sinc...