About Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS is a relational database service software designed to help users set up, operate and scale databases such as Amazon Aurora, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL in the cloud. With Amazon RDS, users can manage routine database tasks like patching, provisioning, backups, failure detection, recovery, and repair.
Amazon RDS enables users to launch database instances and connect applications quickly and easily. The platform supports automatic software patching, and offers best practice guidance through configuration analysis and usage metrics. Amazon RDS provides recommendations for areas like database engine versions, storage, networking, instance types, and storage. Users can search and perform recommended actions instantly, or schedule them for later.
Amazon RDS facilitates general purpose (SSD) and provisioned IOPS (SSD) storage, as well as push-button compute scaling, storage scaling, and read replicas. Other Amazon RDS features include automated backups, database snapshots, multi-AZ deployments, and automatic host replacement. The platform ensures database security with at rest and in transit encryption, network isolation, and resource-level permissions. Amazon RDS also supports event notifications, monitoring and metrics, and configuration governance.
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- 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).
- 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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
Amazon RDS FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Amazon RDS.Q. What type of pricing plans does Amazon RDS offer?
Amazon RDS offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$0.01/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Amazon RDS is free to try, and users only pay for what they use.
Q. Who are the typical users of Amazon RDS?
Amazon RDS has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Amazon RDS support?
Amazon RDS supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Amazon RDS support mobile devices?
Amazon RDS supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Amazon RDS integrate with?
Amazon RDS integrates with the following applications:
Amazon Aurora, Amazon EC2
Q. What level of support does Amazon RDS offer?
Amazon RDS offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Chat
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