AWS's hosted relational database service. Veeam's AWS integration can protect it, but it is not supported as a home for Veeam's configuration database.
Also called Amazon Relational Database Service.
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Terms in this definition
- AWS
Short for Amazon Web Services, Amazon's public cloud. Linking AWS accounts to Microsoft Defender for Cloud brings them under its recommendations and protections.
- Relational database
Tables of rows and columns hold structured data here, one table per entity type, with keys linking the tables together and SQL used to query them.
- RAMP
The approach used by the Cloud Adoption Framework's Manage methodology to structure cloud operations: teams, duties, processes and tools. It divides what the central platform handles from what each workload handles.
- configuration database
Veeam stores details of its infrastructure, jobs and sessions in this SQL Server or PostgreSQL database, which can be local or remote and is tidied each week by DatabaseMaintenance.
Related terms
- Microsoft Defender for open-source relational databases
Detects threats like brute-force attempts against Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL flexible servers, as well as Amazon RDS engines in linked AWS accounts; one of the Defender for Cloud plans.