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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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Verified User in Real Estate

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/26/2018

"Managed Databases are super easy"

5/5

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

Leaving AWS to manage the database reduces a significant overhead in our operational team, allowing us to focus on tuning and streamlining over the day to day management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Access to pull oracle datapump exports in and out leaves a lot to desire. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Biotechnology

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/30/2018

"RDS: Easy Postgres Integration with independent ec2 instances & terraform!"

4/5

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

I'm a N00B when it comes to RDS, I have experience and use with AWS EC2 , but moving our servers to the cloud means we should port our databases to a scalable, reliable, replicative place too. I was intimidated, but RDS was an esy-peasy integration and I was able to spine up a secure postgres RDS and integrate with a EC2 flask server all with terraform within a day!

It is intuitive ,fairly good documentation, and its almost hands-off! No worries aout our internal database crudding out!

AWS RDS handles most of the infrastructure management, works well with Postgres (and with sql, mysql, etc!), seamless with Flask (I'll try Django next!) and terraform, secure, available, replicable, scalable, restorable, easy personal configuration, easy API, and HEY (the manager lies this one..), cost effective! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I tend to go to boto for better api documentation and I tend to find the spinning up can be a bit slow. Sometimes it gets hard to manage IAM roles and the s3 bucketing logging can be tricky to figure out.

The CLI is sometimes updating so quickly it is hard to keep up and realize you're behind! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Look at your needs and just try it out! ask questions, read the docs, and do a trial - you'll appreciate it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As noted, we need something that is cost effective, secure, available, replicative, restorable, RELIABLE, and easy! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harpaul S.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/28/2018

"Managed Database Service by Amazon and its Amazing"

4/5

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

RDS is an amazing service by amazon, you can scale up and scale down your dbms anytime. its fully managed by amazon it self and requires only minimum configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The only problem i found with is that you can not decrease storage(HDD) of an existing dbms. you will need to get a new instance for that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Media Production

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"rds"

4.5/5

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

Ability to launch an rds instance, manage and maintain easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

monitoring. it will be helpful if there are better monitoring tools available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Moving old data to RDS"

4/5

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

The ability to use RDS to expand data that we have compressed into unusable blobs in our on prem DB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Speed seems to be a bit of an issue, but not a complete blocker Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"RDS"

5/5

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

I like that the database is managed for us without any intervention Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I don''t like the downtime that occurs when changing the instance type size. It needs to run much faster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/28/2018

"rds handles a lot for you, with some caveats"

4.5/5

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

you can set up multi-AZ backup and failover with 1 click Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

the DB size will grow automatically, but not shrink Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

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

"Kevin's RDS Review"

5/5

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

Ease of provisioning and management. Licensing models are easy to use and understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

There is not a lot to dislike about AWS RDS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Broadcast Media

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"RDS is a game changer"

4/5

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

Managed Database services saves time and effort that allows my team to focus on a more valuable add item to the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Some of the confusion of BYOL is barrier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/27/2018

"AWS RDS"

4/5

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

RDS has been very reliable for us so far and has off loaded the data processing from the EC2s making everything work better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.