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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Overview

What is Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups. It frees you up to focus on your apps so you can give them the better performance, availability, security, and compatibility they need. Amazon RDS is available on 6 familiar database instances: Amazon Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database and SQL Server engines. This means that the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing databases can be used with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period and enabling point-in-time recovery. You benefit from the flexibility of being able to scale the compute resources or storage capacity associated with your relational database instance via a single API call. In addition, Amazon RDS makes it easy to use replication to enhance availability and reliability for production databases. Amazon RDS for MySQL also enables you to scale out beyond the capacity of a single database deployment for read-heavy database workloads. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no up-front investments required, and you pay only for the resources you use.

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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational DB in the cloud: Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.


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mangu d.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
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"I loved to have RDS instance to use"
The RDS instance are very easy to use and connect and upscall
Mohammed Bilal O.
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Mohammed Bilal O.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"It was good enjoyed the service"
It kept things easy it was easy to use and I liked it more than other clouds
Chaitanya A.
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Chaitanya A.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great!"
Consistency of the data and it is expensive

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Hussein M.
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What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

Aurora clusters is the most powerfull feature, Restore to point in time, everything is managed, global clusters feature.

it is easy to create a databse for system.

it is a good choice to use for daily and production

aurora clusters are easy to integrate with proxy, redshift and zero-etl, and dms.

click and store data, it easy to implement new database all options are available from simple development database to very complex solution that suits iso and soc certificates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

Upgrading from aurora2 to aurora3 was very bad, minor version upgrade in aurora3 causes downtime and restarting loop, aurora3 has many bugs, but in general still good service

it is not easy to directly major version upgrade with no downtime

first line of support is bad from aws in general, but all good after escalate case with account manager Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

our production database stored on it, just create cluster then use it, we don't care of applying maintance, upgrade and manage hardware failure, all is managed in great way from aws Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Osvaldo M.
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What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

It is easy to use, you don't need to manage and mantain the resource you only need to focus on update the version, and it is faster to provisioning and easy to integrate, also you have different type of SQL services, like mysql, posgresql, oracle and SQL Server, and the Aurora that is has a good performence. Also you can manage the backup easier and create snapshot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

Comparing to provising a SQL database manually, RDS reduce load work to provisioning and secury and patching it. In resume, I can't mention anything i dislike about RDS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using a RDS with Postgresql schema to save metrics and logs and using as source to BI using Quicksign. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sujith C.
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What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

High availability and less management overhead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

It is a bit costly, considering that it is billed for the whole time it is up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solves the problems around on premise databases or database instance created inside a server. RDS offers handy backup options, integration with IAM roles to have controlled access. It also provides fault tolerance and high availability using replicas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

The ease of setup, scalability and security makes amazon RDS a hot choice. RDS integrates with other AWS security services. The ability to scale database resources up or down based on demand is valuable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

1. Cost - While RDS offers many benefits, The pricing factor can be steep.

2 Customization Limitations - Some customizatiin options are limited in RDS compared to managing databases directly on EC2 instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problems solved by RDS for me are :

1) Data base management Complexity

2) Scalibility Challenges

3) Data security concerns

4) Performance Monitoring

As a data scientist, it benefitted me for :

1) Focus in analysis rather than infrastructure

2) Seamless data access and integration

3) Scalibility for big data projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rajesh M.
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What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

The managed service provided by AWS with the utmost configurable options and security on point. Supports a large variety of Databases. One stop solution, no manual intervention to manage your DB instances, no worries related to scalability and backups. Implementation is pretty straight forward. My current organization uses RDS for almost all the projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

Nothing as such which I can think of as AWS keeps on improving the service provided by addeing new features with time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Majorly used AWS RDS for aalmost all sorts of application. One of the recent application I have worked on is to manage Bookings for a children daycare platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mario R.
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What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

That everything is easy to configure, since you just set the specs that you need (engine, capacity, etc) and everything else is setted up automatically.

Another thing is that RDS is really secure, and have a panel of recommendations in case there's something wrong in your cluster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

Sometimes is hard to deal with the fact that you have this abstraction from the db configuration, for instance, since when you set up a RDS cluster everything is configured in the backstage regarding the db engine, you can't have access to the super user, which you may be used to have access to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have implemented for multiple development projects, most of them financial platforms, where security is a must. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Munikanth P.
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What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

Amazon RDS helps create SQL databases for moderate and high-level applications, similar to traditional databases. Amazon RDS is fully managed and automated by Amazon, including tasks such as patching, provisioning, and backups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

It is easy to create & manage Databases in the AWS cloud using AWS RDS & provide the best customer support from the AWS support team. easy to integrate with any application. I don't have any negative points to mention about Amazon RDS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provisioning databases in simple way & Automates management of Databases in Cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shubham K.
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What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

The most helpful feature about RDS that i just found out is it's Blue Green Deployment. Without facing any downtime and keeping the same endpoint active throughout the process of migrating my database instance, it helped keep my applications running smoothly without any problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

I would like that they make its read scalability implementation easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me store my data at a central location and since its a managed service, it removes my overhead of managing and maintaining its infrastructure to ensure availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Muhammad A.
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What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

It significantly reduces the time and effort needed to manage databases with its automated maintenance and backups. The variety of supported databases and easy scalability makes it a versatile choice for my different projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

The cost can quickly add up, especially for larger instances and high operations. And the initial setup and configuration can be somewhat complex for those using first time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon RDS eliminates the hassles of manual database management, like backups and patching. It handles the complexities of setting up and maintaining a reliable database environment.

It saves me a ton of time by automating routine tasks, letting me focus on developing my applications. Its scalability means I can easily handle increased loads without worrying about downtime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mathis T.
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Aws cloud engineer
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What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

Based on my experience, I really like the read and write features, and they significantly enhance the efficiency of the database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

They provided two editors, which is unnecessary. If they offered one efficient editor instead, it would be better. We know how to use it easily; however, in some cases, everyone is using version 1, while in others, they're using version 2, which is not ideal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Database management is easy to use and more efficient, especially in terms of performance and auto-scaling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.