AWS Certified Database Specialty certification enables organizations to recognize and nurture individuals possessing essential skills for implementing cloud initiatives. Achieving AWS Certified Database – Specialty affirms proficiency in advising, planning, and managing optimal AWS database solutions.

Tailored for those skilled in on-premises and AWS Cloud-based databases, AWS Certified Database – Specialty mandates candidates to fulfill these prerequisites before the exam:

1. Five years' experience with common database technologies.

2. Two years' hands-on expertise in on-premises and AWS Cloud-based relational and NoSQL databases.

3. Ability to discern key features of AWS database services.

4. Proficient in analyzing requirements for designing and suggesting appropriate AWS database solutions.

The exam includes two question types:

1. Multiple choice: Provides one correct response and three incorrect distractors.

2. Multiple response: Requires selecting two or more correct responses from five or more options.

Candidates must choose responses that best complete the statement or answer the question. Distractors, incorrect options, are choices aligned with the content area that candidates with incomplete knowledge or skills might select.

The exam includes different areas of focus with the following weightings:

1. Workload-Specific Database Design: 26%

2. Deployment and Migration: 20%

3. Management and Operations: 18%

4. Monitoring and Troubleshooting: 18%

5. Database Security: 18%

The provided list includes AWS services and features that are relevant to the exam. It's not an exhaustive list and may change. AWS offerings are categorized based on their primary functions:

Compute:

• AWS Auto Scaling

• Amazon EC2

• AWS Lambda

Containers:

• Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Database:

• Amazon Aurora

• Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

• Amazon DynamoDB

• Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

• Amazon ElastiCache

• Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)

• Amazon Neptune

• Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB)

• Amazon RDS

• Amazon Redshift

• Amazon Timestream

  
  

Storage:

• Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

• Amazon S3

• Amazon S3 Glacier