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📌 Objective Understand AWS RDS fundamentals through hands-on practice Create and connect a MySQL RDS instance securely Implement backups using snapshots Configure and test Read Replicas Restore a database from a snapshot 🧱 Prerequisites Bef...

Jan 31 · 3 min read · samargeet.hashnode.dev  
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