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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: ...

Tail Command in Linux: A Comprehensive Overview

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The tail in Linux is handy command. You can check the last lines of a file in Linux/Unix operating systems. You can use it to display last lines from single file, display last lines from multiple files, display the last entries of log files. Tail Command in Linux During production support the usage of Tail command is helpful since you can check latest logs quickly. Here are the top Tail command examples. #1 Display last lines in a file (Tail file Linux) Here's the tail command that shows last three lines of a file. cat sample.txt | tail -3 It displays last 3 lines of a file. The same command you can use as tail -3 sample.txt #2 Display last lines of multiple files There are three files. sample2.txt, sample3.txt, sample4.txt. The command displays the last 3 lines from all the three files. tail -3 sample[2-4].txt #3 Tail -f option (Tail f Linux) The –f option is to check status of long-running process that is redirecting output to a file. For example, if you invoke the below command...