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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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Gurleen S.

Technology Analyst

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/25/2018

"Amazon RDS Review"

5/5

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

Amazon RDS has quite a number of relational databases services such as Oracle, SQL, MySql, etc. which covers almost all the needs of an organization without installing and configuring a database on the physical machines.

It saves a lot of cost associated with setting up of relational databases and hence, increases the margins for small scale corporations.

It also provide an option to enable IAM DB Authentication and there is an option to choose the backup retention period so that automated backups can be taken and restore in an event of failure

Amazon RDS takes very few seconds to launch the database instance and we can connect to RDS instance through command line - shell Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As such there isn't anything in particular which I dislike, but I do have few suggestions such as more databases support can be included apart from the one which are already covered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I would strongly recommend Amazon RDS since it'll solve many database installations concerns for the organization along with providing good returns on the investment made in using 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?

We have had many problems in our current projects in which we were using Oracle relational database. Due to hug amount of data, a lot of physical servers were installed in order to make sure latency should be low and data can be saved or retrieved efficiently.

Once we implemented AWS Service for Amazon RDS, we have saved a lot in terms of pricing, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ibn H.

Programmer

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/25/2018

"Database on the FLY"

4.5/5

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

When I started programming back in 2003, I never thought future will be that easy. We had some large projects with huge databases. Working with those were really difficult due to size of the database. Size wasn't the only problem here, we didn't knew how much storage we needed for those database. Databases kept growing and we began to encounter performance issues.

Well than we thought about alternative and Amazon RDS was top on our list. It was super east to transfer our existing database there and manage all data. API, CLI support, SDK you name it and Amazon has this for you. It is secure, it is fast and most importantly very easy to maintain. Now we don't have to think about database size anymore. It's expending along with our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Their billing system still confuses us, sometimes we predict something and bill comes different. Yes they do has usage or billing graph but it still confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

If performance matters, it should give this a try. 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 Amazon RDS for Relational Database Service (RDS). Mentionable benefits will be their secure API and scalable database size. We don't have to think about database size as it is growing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alex H.

System Admin

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/26/2018

"Amazon RDS databse"

4.5/5

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

Ease of use, no need to manage patching. easy backup and restoration easy read replicas Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

poor performance compared to like sized ec2 with mysql Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mani S.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"Review on RDS"

5/5

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

Like the new interface of the console. Everything is on one page Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It would be easier if they can provide a code base to provision database using Terraform or something like that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Facilities Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"Operating SQL database made easy"

5/5

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

Managing backup and recover it is really made easy.

I also appreciate the possibility to upgrade to bigger storage and instance, on the fly without impacting our running production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Theres is nothing i can really see, operating RDS helped me so much, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joseph A.

Infrastructure Cloud Architect

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/27/2018

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

"It just works"

5/5

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

AWS manages all of the tasksI don't like to do.They handle the redunadance and all of thesetupo Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

LOL I have to pay for it. I don't really have any complaints Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/30/2019

"It is best Service as compare to other cloud."

3/5

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

Its good for our knowledge as well as earning money. Good for all Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Amazing survey its easy to use and good in handling. I Will share my experience with my team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ed G.

Technical Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"Oracle RDS"

5/5

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

Exceptionally easy to manage, very resilient, backup and recovery super easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Upon migrsting from on-prem we built our application database to the same specs as our on prem server and took a huge performance hit....so had to scale up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jeremy L.

Sr Software Eng

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/26/2018

"A Must Have"

5/5

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

How it is even p0sssible to produce solid apps without rds is beyond me. I always use and always suggest Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

reporting is cubersome and slow to view warm up is a bit slow when in urgetnt need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hiren D.

Configuration Release Manager

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/19/2018

"Simple & reliable Database Management (on the cloud)"

5/5

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

Scalability capacity without any downtime is hands-down the best feature. 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.

Easy set-up and gives you the best DBaaS platform at a low cost.

It also gives you the ability to create replicas in an entirely different region, which is pretty cool for setting up a HA environment and traffic shaping.

It also gives you the choice to decide what type of DB you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Since it is running on an EC2 VM leaks through in the restrictions on database sizes, storage, memory etc.

A pro of this product which can be considered as a con is sometimes the robust security makes things complicated. In order to create a set of "structured" security group rules, our security groups especially RDS SGs are very complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.