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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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Anthony N.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"Reliable managed relational database product"

4/5

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

Managed Database Service that behaves well most of the time. Rarely acts up and is very visible to our team when it does with very clear and apparent errors and resolution. Very helpful and knowledgeable paid support staff that replies in a reasonable timeframe when we need to make any specific inquiries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The AWS Console Redesign was and continues to be rough; feels like features were lost and specifically enhanced monitoring performs much worse than before, and in heavier workloads is entirely non-functional. Feels like it was not well tested and gave me a bad opinion of the current wave of console redesigns.

We infrequently instances fail over due to "rare" hardware failures and have to submit a support ticket to confirm these occurrences. It would be nice if the service itself communicated these events with this level of detail so that we don't have to inquire with support staff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in E-Learning

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/12/2019

"RDS is Database for the Cloud"

5/5

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

It's literally managed database in the cloud. I like the fact that it abstracts stuff enough that I don't have to micromanage configurations, but it is powerful enough that you can change what you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Nothing really. I think Aurora has largely superseded pure RDS in terms of performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/27/2018

"AWS RDS for Database Simplicity"

5/5

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

The best features of the AWS RDS are the automatic installation and patching, automated backups of the database, and optional high-availability replication and read-replicas. A DBA no longer needs to spend countless hours reviewing and tuning database parameters, patching, resolving OS inconsistencies, or working with a System Administrator to fine-tune the OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The main drawbacks to using AWS RDS are not being able to utilize some of the advanced features of the database platform, fine-tuning of database parameters, and other options. A couple of PostgreSQL examples include not being able to install certain packages or not being able to use all of the procedural languages available for database development (e.g. Python). New releases or patches are not immediately available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS):

Migrate from on-premise to RDS as soon as possible! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We're able to get a database up and running in minutes, instead of days. No need to procure HW, install and configure the OS, and install, patch, and configure the Database software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Restaurants

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/11/2019

"The many flavors of RDS easily handles 95% of most enterprises RDBMS needs with 10% of the headache."

5/5

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

Most RDBMS are covered; sql server, postgress, mysql, oracle, etc. Easy backups, easy restores. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Importing on prem dbs is still a pain! Why cant you just import the on prem backup or export??? SQL Server and Oracle are insane expensive $$$. Lack of BYOL for SQL Server. Performance does not match EC2 hosted in some situations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/11/2019

"Excellent virtual database service on hybrid cloud"

3.5/5

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

Ability to use RDS on a hybrid cloud environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Nothing specific- Initial configuration time maybe Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"RDS is a solid option "

4/5

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

RDS takes care of many of the administrative tasks required for using an RDBMS allowing teams to focus their energies on delivering features and capabilities needed by our users. It also is extremely easy to standup a new environment to experiment which improves agility signifcantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The speed around snapshots / restores can be a real challenge for cases where you need to have some determinism. 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 migrating all of our on prem applications to the cloud. Many of these applications are traditional 3 tier OLTP applications depending on relational databases. We made a decision early on in our journey that we wanted to minimize the amount of infrastructure we would need to manage/administer. RDS allows us to realize that goal for our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael C.

Sr. System Engineer

Sporting Goods

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"Better than using an ec2 instance"

5/5

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

It's a database that I don' thave to mess with, so that makes one less thing that i Need to worry about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It can be expensive, and there are times I"d like to root on the box that is running for further analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS):

don't over allocate such a large database. Often times RDS instances will get very large and its easy to make them larger. Try actually making an index or you're not just blinding creating more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Any time I need relational data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gourav D.

MS Student

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/31/2019

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Amazon doesn't take a wrong step when it comes to AWS"

5/5

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

-Allows to store a large amount of data, maintains user profiles efficiently and seamlessly

-Support is good, as you expect from Amazon

-Easy to setup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cost is on higher side due to lack of competition and AWS's near monopoly, please work on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Willie O.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/4/2018

"Great managed database service"

4/5

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

Upgrading MySQL versions and increasing storage space are made simple and non-invasive. You can configure automated snapshots of your database for restore or migration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Initially the storage limit was 2TB, so we were looking to be forced to upgrade to Aurora soon, but that limit has since been increased further. We'll still move to Aurora but we can manage that process further down the line. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joey B.

Team Lead

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/26/2018

"Simple database hosting, with limitations"

3.5/5

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

It's very easy and intuitive to use. A lot of required functionnality for databases are offered and are simple to configure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The link between the number of connections and the instance size. It makes it hard when you have a low compute workload with a serverless client such as AWS Lambda Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.