DBS-C01 Management and Operations Practice Question
A company is running an Amazon RDS for MySQL DB instance. The database performance has degraded over time, and the company suspects that slow queries are the cause. Which AWS service should the company use to identify the slow queries and analyze the database performance?
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Amazon RDS Performance Insights
Performance Insights provides a dashboard to analyze database performance and identify slow queries. AWS Trusted Advisor (A) provides best-practice checks, not query analysis. Amazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring (B) provides OS metrics, not query details. Amazon CloudWatch Logs (C) is for logs, not query analysis.
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AWS Trusted Advisor
Why it's wrong here
AWS Trusted Advisor provides best-practice checks, not query analysis.
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Amazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring
Why it's wrong here
Amazon RDS Enhanced Monitoring provides OS metrics, not query details.
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Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Why it's wrong here
Amazon CloudWatch Logs is for logs, not query analysis.
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Amazon RDS Performance Insights
Why this is correct
Amazon RDS Performance Insights provides a dashboard to analyze database performance and identify slow queries.
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