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211 Reviews for UK Users
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Database provisioning without maintenance efforts
Reviewed on 08/12/2019
Personally I am very satisfied by this solution as it makes Database hosting totally painless....
Personally I am very satisfied by this solution as it makes Database hosting totally painless. Also, Read-Replica and Multi-AZ features, makes it very hard to have a downtime on your side. If you're searching for an HA solution for your Database, consider Amazon RDS.
Pros
Amazon RDS is a very good product if you need a Database solution in your software architecture. Scaling and ensure performance without bottlenecks is definitely a plus value that Amazon RDS offers. Easier to integrate across other AWS products, but also on standalone software through DNS names and port, you can easily spawn a Database in a couple of clicks. Amazon RDS offers also Read-Replicas and Multi-AZ totally transparent to you, which makes it kind of unique in database hosting.
Cons
Price: everybody is well aware of how much AWS costs in the long run. Amazon RDS solution makes no difference, but if you are well aware of the costs, then this shouldn't stop you from trying and using it.
- Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Simplifies a lot of database management work
Reviewed on 14/04/2022
Overall, Amazon RDS has been very useful to us. It has saved us tremendous amounts of time just in...
Overall, Amazon RDS has been very useful to us. It has saved us tremendous amounts of time just in the provisioning, scaling, and maintenance activities alone.
Pros
I like how easy it is to scale RDS up and down alongside its monitoring features which can be conveniently accessed via AWS console.
Cons
The burst balance limit for the underlying EBS disk gave us lots of problems. I wish this feature was more user-friendly.
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft AzureReasons for Choosing Amazon RDS
In my previous companies, we used to self-host databases (postgres, MySQL/MariaDB) in VMs. This was more expensive in the long run in terms of time spent. We also used Google Cloud SQL for some projects but eventually switched to RDS since our main tech infra runs on AWS.Reasons for Switching to Amazon RDS
Our main tech infra runs on AWS already.- Company size: 11–50 Employees
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Amazon RDS is really simple and lightweight.
Reviewed on 24/04/2018
Pros
Amazon RDS is really simple and lightweight. It is easy to use and scale up in the cloud. Easy to setup.
Cons
I have not used Amazon Relational Database extensively, so I did not find any drawbacks forAmazon Relational Database.
- Industry: Civic & Social Organization
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Amazing relational database which is easy to setup and use provided you have the technical...
Reviewed on 29/07/2019
AWS RDS can be linked with Victorops/splunk/slack and what not to constantly monitor the state of...
AWS RDS can be linked with Victorops/splunk/slack and what not to constantly monitor the state of the database and set up alerts for catching problems. It can automatically save regular copies of the database.
Pros
ease of setup
ease of taking snapshots
no configurational drainers
very easy to set up alerts for monitoring problems in the database
debugging is a breeze.
Cons
It is easy to get lost without an UI.
also replicating databases can get stuck sometimes if you don't know what you are doing.
replication can be pain depending upon whether you want (master-master) or (master-slaves)
Alternatives Considered
Google CloudSwitched From
Google CloudReasons for Switching to Amazon RDS
GCP was sort of handing off sensitive data over to Google and flying blind. AWS RDS debugging is much more useful when a problem arises. aws was a no contest choice despite it's expenditure.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Amazon RDS - The Relational Database Service
Reviewed on 03/02/2019
Amazon Relational Database allows us to encrypt your data using the Amazon Web Key Management. We ...
Amazon Relational Database allows us to encrypt your data using the Amazon Web Key Management. We manage our databases on Amazon Virtual Private which isolate the service and keep running without trouble. Monitoring of AWS RDS with Amazon CloudWatch is easy and describes details in metrics with no extra cost. Amazon Aurora is one of the cost efficient RDS.
Pros
Amazon Relational Database Service is one of the best product of AWS. The best thing in it is easy to deploy,patch,backup,security and administrate . The distributed architecture provide render the high scalability feature in it. The hardware upgrade is also easy and less time consuming with AWS as it comes with the embed features of it. After switching to the AWS RDS there is a less administration activities needed on managing the databases. Best feature in it is, if you are new to the RDS it also provides the best practices and recommendations. Managing the database snapshot with the help of Amazon S3 is also very convenient.
Cons
Amazon Relational Databases management is easy but it's little tricky also as if you mess up the security group setting to vast, it's not an easy task to solve the puzzle. Best practices is to keep the security group setting simple and as per recommendation by AWS.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Go-to solution for database hosting on AWS
Reviewed on 05/09/2018
Pros
We're using Amazon RDS PostgreSQL.
Our database use case is pretty trivial, so we're entirely satisfied with RDS experience.
Database is fast and efficient, very easy to scale by changing instance types, adding more disk I/O, or spinning up read replicas. Backups do not have significant performance penalty.
With some careful planning it is very easy to migrate between different software versions.
Reserved instances make it a very compelling offering.
Cons
It gets expensive, but if you consider the fact that you don't need to deal with many daily operational issue, it's well worth the price.
You can only add storage capacity (no storage downsizing possible without a complex migration process).
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Watch out for billing surprises
Reviewed on 06/05/2018
Pros
Amazon has worked hard to democratises databases, it's easy to set up a variety of different type of databases: SQL, Oracle, MySQL etc and perform things that typically have been a little more complicated with just a few clicks for example snapshots and database mirrors for you analytical platform.
Choose the region in which you're seeking to operate with just a few clicks, and it's pretty easy to kick off auto-scaling etc.
Cons
You need to be careful with billing surprises, make sure that you're familiar with Cloudwatch before you start playing with RDS.
Keep an eye on how much it's costing you.
Amazon may be elastic, but your budget probably lacks the same amount of elasticity.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
A simple setting up relational database in the cloud
Reviewed on 19/12/2019
We use RDS with MySQL and PostgreSQL as primary database for my Applications which deploys in EC2...
We use RDS with MySQL and PostgreSQL as primary database for my Applications which deploys in EC2 and ECS, AWS IAM and VPC are used to limit access to RDS only from the backed Component and do not expose RDS to publish. we reply on AWS on backup, snapshot and database patch.
Pros
Amazon RDS is easy to create and maintain, just a few clicks to set up a new Database instance and AWS will take care of all maintenance and upgrade task. RDS is well integrated with other AWS component for security, role-based access and query access. RDS is cheap compared with other solution and it has flexible on select instance size, engine, purchase mode and scale mode for cost-optimized. AWS RDS provides fast response and very reliable
Cons
We should trickly use AWS version of the database engine. Its database logs are not kept for a long time and we have to use additional solution for keeping the log.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Easy To Setup & Super In Security & Data Management
Reviewed on 15/06/2023
I have a very good experience with AWS RDS system.
I have a very good experience with AWS RDS system.
Pros
You don't want to care about more configuration setup to run as we did in normal case. A lot of configurable variable available in it to help the system working smooth. You can change maximum setting at runtime . easy to setup replication here, user & permission management is fast & secure.
Cons
No more cons except the price in compare to others only.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
RDS as a database for Web Applications
Reviewed on 09/08/2022
Pros
It has met all our requirements regarding costs and storage. We observed no downtimes. Once set up, we did not have to manage it at all. Really enjoyed the backup functionality.
Cons
Deployment was quite hard as for most of AWS infrastructure, but once you get over initial struggles it becomes relatively easy
Alternatives Considered
Amazon DynamoDBReasons for Switching to Amazon RDS
Previous experience with AWS.- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Setting up a "serversless" database environment inminutes
Reviewed on 13/02/2019
Since we start using RDS it saves us a lot of time. You can start with a small instance and very...
Since we start using RDS it saves us a lot of time. You can start with a small instance and very easily grow to a larger instance and a multi AZ (High available) setup. No need to worry about disk space anymore for backups or snapshots. Amazon doesn't run out of space. You can setup automated backup with a retention of 35 days max but if you need to keep backups longer you can create manual snapshots and keep them forever.
Pros
- Very easy to setup
- Creating database environments including HA in minutes
- Creating a HA environment without having to know anything about database replication
- Upgrading the DB engine with a click of a mouse
- Very ease to create backups (and setup automated snapshots)
- Easy to restore
- Can be managed via the weg GUI but also via the very powerful AWS CLI
- No need to manage an Operating system
- Changing instanced types if you need more or less CPU/memory.
- Dynamically change the storage
- Performance is very good
Cons
- On Aurora the disk spaces grows automatically when the database grows. But when deleting lots of data its not possible to shrink the file system.
- No root access to server (which we never missed since using RDS)
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Amazon RDS - Keeping it simple & easy
Reviewed on 18/01/2019
Overall very satisfied. It worked for our use case.
Overall very satisfied. It worked for our use case.
Pros
Easy to setup and running. All cloudwatch metrics made available like other AWS services. Ability to take snapshots, scale up horizontally and vertically across environments and depending upon load. We were able to automate our build and deployments using terraform scripts. Automated Backups are stored in S3 so you can retrieve backups when needed. Pay as you go like traditional EC2 metered cost model. You can predict your montly/yearly estimates before hand. It just works!
Supports a wide range of DB's - PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, etc.
Cons
Security setup may take time as its controlled by security groups. So it takes time to troubleshoot if you are not able to connect from local or any other remote instance.
Pricing may start to increase when you upgrade your instance types and add replication nodes etc.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great managed database solution
Reviewed on 03/12/2019
Managing database servers is an expensive time sink. RDS lets you focus more on the business needs...
Managing database servers is an expensive time sink. RDS lets you focus more on the business needs instead of managing servers.
Pros
It makes your life way easier by not having to manage a database server. Amazon RDS abstracts all the server stuff away so you just focus on managing the actual database content itself.
Cons
The UI is a bit clunky and some of the parameterization options are a bit difficult to use. There used to be a couple of bugs as well but they were fixed thankfully. With the lack of control over the server it can be a bit annoying if something is broken and you can't fix it.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Best "cloud" rDB implementation so far
Reviewed on 06/03/2019
I've been using AWS since 2015 and to be fair, it has only improved all this time. Being RDS one of...
I've been using AWS since 2015 and to be fair, it has only improved all this time. Being RDS one of the most commonly used services, I have plenty of experience with it (including the support team behind it) and I only have good things to say about it.
Pros
- Fully managed database
- Access to all the configuration options you would usually do when tweaking the configuration file(s)
- Top notch support
- High-availability is just a few mouse clicks away
- Incredible easy to setup master/slave scenarios
- Great backup (snapshot) service
- Great performance with basic monitoring included
- You get the database engine you already know without the hassle to have to set it up by yourself
Cons
- Price? AWS is still expensive
- Nothing else I can think of
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Easiest database management there is
Reviewed on 13/06/2018
Peace of mind if it's about database administration, backup and availability.
Peace of mind if it's about database administration, backup and availability.
Pros
It's fully managed database service with multiple database types available (Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server) - you can chose whatever you like or used to run. It's really easy to migrate from existing database of the same type. RDS is highly available and durable service if you chose to run in multi AZ (multiple availability zone/datacenter) scenario (master/slave replication). Amazon will do all the administration task like upgrades or failover for you. Max database storage size is 16 TB (in most cases) and you pay only for what you use.
Cons
It'a a little pricey and not all advance database configuration/administratio options are available if you compare it to on premise deployment.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A good fit
Reviewed on 21/01/2020
All our commercial products run on Aws Rds severs and overall we are happy with it. Server...
All our commercial products run on Aws Rds severs and overall we are happy with it. Server configuration is a breeze, performance is steady, but cost is not the lowest, for sure.
Pros
- the ease of setting up and getting ready with the first instance
- the multitude of options when getting to advanced level
- the performance of the Aurora engine
Cons
- could not get the fastest performance being connected from remote vs connect from another Aws instance. A minimum 60ms overhead is added to every query, which disappears running the client on an ec2
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Cloud base Data
Reviewed on 13/03/2019
My old man has a big database of tires, it's huge. And for his stores, he needed to access the data...
My old man has a big database of tires, it's huge. And for his stores, he needed to access the data quick enough to give prices or stocks. We first try a local server, which wasn't as fast or as big as we needed. Amazon took the job and did it perfectly.
Pros
If you need some data on the cloud for your software, you can totally trust Amazon to do it. Their servers are totally protected and fast enough to give you the info you need. Even high portions of data can go into it without much problem.
Cons
The price can go sometimes high if some storage, but it's totally worth it if you need it to be secure and functional at all times.
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
RDS is a fully managed relational database system, with different type of DBMS support
Reviewed on 09/05/2021
This is a great way to use a relational DBMS without managing it , it is a great experience using...
This is a great way to use a relational DBMS without managing it , it is a great experience using this service
Pros
RDS support different DBMS's like mysql, postgres, and also a hybrid Aurora,
Taking snapshot and creating a new DB with the snapshots are easy, can also schedule snapshot taking,
We can set all the network settings to the datable , like VPC, subnet, security groups etc.. to keep the DB secure,
Using Aurora we can also setup a dynamically scaling up DB, which runs on server-less system methodology
Cons
I don't have any problems in traditional DBMS's , but have seen some issues with hybrid Aurora,
In Aurora, setting up the Copy to S3 future require some additional effort,
And auto scaling in aurora should have been configurable, since the default scaling policy is 90% of CPU usage,
the system is not responsive for scale down, it never scale down to 0
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Enterprise database without the hardware
Reviewed on 29/09/2020
Overall my experience with RDS has been a good one. It's great for a small business looking to...
Overall my experience with RDS has been a good one. It's great for a small business looking to scale in the future.
Pros
What I like about RDS is the variety of database options from both a hardware and software standpoint. In addition, it's easy to have a database stood up within 10 to 15 minutes.
Cons
The fact that the database will start from a stopped state after 7 days is particularly annoying. This could be remedied by using lambda to shut it down, but that's added work. A simple email reminding you that the database is still stopped would suffice. Even if the reasoning is to run updates, would it not make sense to start, update, and then shut it back down if it was down previously?
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
RDS is awsome!
Reviewed on 29/05/2019
Pros
As a sysadmin, I working with many databases and tools related to this. I could say that RDS is a great service, that allows your team to focus on business, letting Amazon manages your database for you.
I also appreciate pay on demand, and the facility to upgrade environments.
Cons
I could say that I like every aspect of this product, but if I should say some negative aspect. I would say that price on America/Sao_Paulo is a bad aspect, but I know that isn't RDS problem but the cost of my country.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Much better and efficient to use RDS rather than building your own database infrastructure.
Reviewed on 18/07/2019
Pros
If you have a choice of building your own infrastructure for the database server, or choosing RDS,
I will suggest , go with RDS. Amazon has made it very easy to create your own database servers.
All you have to do is ,log in to aws and choose RDS services and the memory, storage capacity,
user access as per your requirements. Also, backup your data in s3 for later use.
Cons
Your entire dependency is on Amazon servers, so that could be a con
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
A feature-packed database management system
Reviewed on 17/12/2022
We had a good experience using the product both for SQL server and PostgreSql. Once we passed...
We had a good experience using the product both for SQL server and PostgreSql. Once we passed initial hurdle of setting it up, we were able to take advantage of all the product had to offer.
Pros
Amazon RDS provides all features of a modern RDMS and it takes it further by securing your RDS instance using IAM which improves access and security.The backup feature ensures that replicas of data are maintained in cases of data loss.
Cons
One drawback is that it can be quite tricky to fully set up. The docs are easy to follow but you have to dig deeper to set up some feature that one is used to. A good example is setting up your RDS instance to allow connections from public IP addresses.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
it's very easy to work with RDS
Reviewed on 29/07/2019
Pros
Amazon RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) is a very powerful Service hosted by AWS. It's very easy to Setup and Run complex Database Instances. You can choose between Amazon Aurora (AWS own database System), PostgrSQÖ, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle and MSSQL Server. It's very easy to Setup Things like Data Replication or Scale the DB up or down.
Cons
if u are using MSSQL Server you are only able to work with the database engine - SSAS is not available (which makes sense in the context of working wih a database but it might me a stumbling Stone)
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Helpful for a startup
Reviewed on 24/04/2018
Saved a lot of time when bootstrapping my startup
Saved a lot of time when bootstrapping my startup
Pros
- This is a good choice, if you want to get a relational database server immediately up and running
- No operations or maintenance overhead
- Good security features, easy to configure them up
- Scheduled backups/failovers is very easy to setup
Cons
- Slightly expensive
- Other than that it offers exactly what you expect from a managed db and more
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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We utilize Amazon ealational Database Service as a backend for a modest bunch of web...
Reviewed on 29/03/2018
Pros
Exceptionally adjustable. Bunches of Amazon cloud benefit choices and outsider projects, Application programming interfaces (APIs) accessible. Solid accentuation on securing server cases. Backings wide assortment of Windows and Linux servers. More affordable forthright expenses.
Cons
Poor value for the money. Confounding cluster of administrations. I don't accept conventional RDBMS have any business being generation databases these days, so I discover RDS' center around execution and solidness to be inefficient and diverting.