____________ embodies the “share-nothing” architecture and essentially involves breaking a large database
into several smaller databases. Common ways to split a database include 1) splitting tables that are not joined
in the same query onto different hosts or 2) duplicating a table across multiple hosts and then using a hashing
algorithm to determine which host receives a given update.

Without _____, you must either create multiple AWS accounts-each with its own billing and subscriptions to
AWS products-or your employees must share the security credentials of a single AWS account.

What happens to the I/O operations while you take a database snapshot?

If I modify a DB Instance or the DB parameter group associated with the instance, should I reboot the instance
for the changes to take effect?

What does RRS stand for when talking about S3?

EBS Snapshots occur _____

Groups can’t _____.

What is the minimum charge for the data transferred between Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2 Instances in the
same Availability Zone?

What does specifying the mapping /dev/sdc=none when launching an instance do?

Will my standby RDS instance be in the same Availability Zone as my primary?