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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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AG
IT Manager
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Reivew of RDS"
What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

The speed and seperation of data with our sites. Isolation of data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Love the product and do not have any dislikes. We use it for our public and internal sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RD
Staff
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"RDS Services Availability"
What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

The multi AZ availability of RDS services saved us when one of our databases is deleted due to CICD mistake Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The daily snaphost takes some time because of log based rollback Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
AE
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"RDS experience"
What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

RDS is a managed service. It saves lot of time and effort to maintain the databases. I kike the simple process to install the DB and then basic maintenance by using console. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are using Oracle RDS. I like the service overall but in case of critical issues working with Oracle support may make it little complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"RDS Besr Database service"
What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

Its really easy to manage RDS system. No need to worry about underlying infrastructure, just focus on db sesign and performance optimization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

There are some of the feature where it needs improvement. For example: partitioning. It doesn't provide online partitioning. I did face many issue in creating partitioning with running RDS mysql. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bob S.
BS
Co-Founder, President, COO
Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"RDS keeps databases simple"
What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

I like the ease to manage different database software in an environment which is the same for any database engine. RDS also allows you to back up, restore and clone instances effortlessly. This has saved me much time and effort over the years. Additionally you can create and test difference database warehouse technology without having to know much about the installation and configuration of the same. Which is a huge plus if you are not a trained DBA for each different database technology. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

When RDS started to use EC2 Security Groups instead of the RDS security groups it originally used to manage access, this was further complicated when VPC became a requirement for EC2 Security Groups. It also can be more expensive for startups because you have a dedicated instance for your database, and it isn't running on our application server. But depending on the size of the instance you might be eligible for a free tier of usage for the first year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Thomas Z.
TZ
Staff Software Engineer
Computer Software
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Don't manage your database in ec2"
What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

It easy to configure, manage and monitor Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

MySQL requires restarts when scaling vertically Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AC
DBA
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"RDS is a quick way to provision a database"
What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

Quick to provision and takes the management out of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Not clear how we can connect to the database endpoint. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CO
engineering manager
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"what i like about it"
What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

i like the fact that i dont have to worry about security, update and maintenance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

the price is a little bit expensive when you are doing multi az Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SK
Director of Software Engineering
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Excellent RDS service"
What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

Great read and write througput. Easy clone capability. MultiAZ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cross region replication is not great. Currently only supports bin log replication which is single threaded. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
II
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"AWS RDS has simplified our database deployment"
What do you like best about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

I like the ability to quickly create a Postgres database that is fully encrypted, secured, replicated, and backed up. This has saved us countless hours of deployment and troubleshooting time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The only issue that I have with RDS is the inability to have different encryption keys for each database in a RDS cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

14 months

Average Discount

11%

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