Top Rated Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Alternatives

RaimaDB

Visit Website

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Reviews & Product Details - Page 87

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.

This product is included in:

AWS Databases

2,376 reviews

AWS Cloud

7,306 reviews

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Details

Discussions

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Community

Show LessShow More

Product Description

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.

Seller

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Description

By giving customers more of what they want - low prices, vast selection, and convenience - Amazon continues to grow and evolve as a world-class e-commerce platform.

Overview Provided by:

Elizabeth Solomon

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Integrations

(4)

Integration information sourced from real user reviews.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Media

RDS Console

G2 reviews are authentic and verified.

Here's how.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"Easy, fast, scalable"

5/5

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

Specifically related to MYSQL and Aurora, the experience with RDS is amazing, especially if you remember the early MYSQL installation and patching processes. Real-time and automatich monitoring metrics and ties into CloudWatch is awesome. Adding redundancy is easy and cost affordable.

My favorite option is snapshots which makes large/risky changes idiotproof (if youre like me...) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

nothing, this is the absolute best product and experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Don't think about twice about it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use RDS as our primary non-transactional customer configuration db as well as minor applications doing transactional or helper metrics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prashant K.

IT Director

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"RDS Review"

5/5

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

It is a managed Service. It was easy to migrate from Mysql. We like the Master/Slave configuration and Read only replicas Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We can scale up which is good, but we can not scale out by replicating multiple primary dbs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"Amazon RDS review"

3.5/5

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

Amazon RDS allows databases easily to be setup and AWS takes care of setting up the infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As with many AWS services the RDS service can quickly get expensive if not monitored. It's also more expensive than setting up a database on an EC2 instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Very good option if you don't have the people or don't want to waste engineer time maintaining databases. The RDSs can get expensive depending on the amount of data.stored. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

AWS RDS allows for reliable and maintenance free databases. This removes a need for DBA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Entertainment

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Exactly what we need for our internal tools"

5/5

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

It's easy to create a highly available database using the multi-AZ feature of RDS, and all of the most popular relational databases are supported. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Some of the smaller RDS instance types do not support encryption. Spinning up new RDS instances takes a while though, it would be nice if it was similar to EC2 instance launch time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Very easy to switch from self-managed solutions to this Amazon managed service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We create highly available services, at a reasonable price, with ease. We are able to quickly spin up new services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brandon C.

VP of Tech Delivery

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"RDS saves time!"

4.5/5

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

Ability to minimize upgrade time saves us on labor costs and downtime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

A little slow to latest version of databases, though generally pretty good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Use it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Ability to maintain a high number of databases without a proportionate number of resources. We've been able to do that and grow faster than otherwise possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Angelo C.

Sr Systems Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"The best review of RDS you will ever recieve"

5/5

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

That I do not have to manage anything anymore.

The setuo is quick and easy.

I love the simple backup scheme. Perfect solution for migrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

That my DBAs complain about it all the time that they need OS level access, which they do not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Viji N.

Sr.Manager, Software Engineering

Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"Cut down the hand off time from DBAs"

5/5

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

How easy it is to setup a relational database, compatibility to standard ports based on database of choice. Cross region replication, incremental backups and the constant innovation to get better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Ability to have write consistency in the replica vs. just having a read replica Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Addy S.

Automation and Analytics Specialist (Marketo)

Hospitality

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/30/2018

"Amazon RDS one of the best!"

5/5

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

Easy set-up and gives you the best DBaaS platform at a low cost. Amazon RDS takes very few seconds to launch the database instance and we can connect to RDS instance through command line - shell

Scalable capacity without any downtime is one of the best feature of the server. Also, the server running the DB is different than your web server, so the hassle of upgrading AWS RDS affecting your web server doesn't exist.

It gives you the choice to decide what type of DB you need.

Definitely go for this one with affordable prices and its really helpful for high availability related concerns Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Its really good apart from the support in some cases one has to dig deep into the community threads to know about the actual issue and it takes some time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I found the performance to be better than what we needed and offcourse the pricing too

I didn’t have to worry about most of the database "management" things as. Its was just few clicks away including complete replication of the service and data for painless test and development cycles.

Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

David M.

Director of Software Engineering

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/26/2018

"RDS the service that saves time"

5/5

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

Its so easy to get started. It takes very little time to get a multi-AZ setup built. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

There is a slightly higher cost compared to just running your own EC2 instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"UMD experience with RDS"

4.5/5

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

Can mimic our oracle on-prem configurations perfectly in the cloud

Little to no downtime usually

Scalable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Integrating RDS with our on prem authentication infrastructure has been non-intuitive. We use radius for user authentication and giving access to our schemas hosted in rds can be difficult at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.