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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 Human Resources

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/25/2018

"Magnificient DBaaS by Amazon"

5/5

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

Amazon RDS was really easy to set up and we saved a ton of administrative costs. We did very little to set up our production relational database. With the RDS API calls it was easy to take required actions for development and deployment our database services. Also scaling up with RDS is relatively easy than other DBaaS providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Nothing that I can think of. I would not use RDS if scaling my db was out of scope. There are other dedicated servers that can be cheaper than using RDS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

For low traffic applications, use of RDS should be free. This way you might increase your customer base and profit when they scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Amazon RDS made scaling look so easy. Just with few API calls and mouse clicks database will be scaled up or down with no time. As I mentioned earlier we saved good amount of administration costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Entertainment

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"RDS"

5/5

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

I have no sleepless nights about in regards to downtime, backups or dealing with maintenenace of servers.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I would like ot be avble to sclae with 0 downtime. ButI assume that's where aurora came in? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/29/2018

"RDS is great"

5/5

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

That I don't have to manage servers, including updates of the host and db Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Hard to change server level parameters like charset, encoding etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"working with RDS "

4.5/5

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

using a managed service is always great that too with rds we have many options for different databases and reliability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

nothing as such. it's all working out great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/18/2018

"Simple Cloud Databases with Few Headaches"

5/5

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

We love being able to create new databases on the fly and more so making sure they are replicated to prevent data loss. Backing up and copying databases is simple and making configuration changes is pretty simple as well. Scalability has been another great key to our success with RDS. We've been able to seamlessly bump our instances size up as our traffic on our web application has grown. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Learning the AWS environment as a whole takes some time and finding things in their control panels can take some time. It does take a fair amount of reading the AWS docs and forums to find solutions to certain AWS specific issues. Depending on your configuration of your VPC and security group settings you may also find it hard to get your data out of RDS easily. One last thing I've found is that default settings for MySQL can cause application issues and making the tweaks can be a bit of trial and error. Once its up and running you are good to go though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

If you are going on the AWS platform then I would recommend RDS over self-hosting MySQL or other database solutions on an EC2 instances. Way more flexible and isolated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cloud databases in a VPC infrastructure. We were concerned with uptime, scalability, reliability and data retention and we've solved all of these things with amazon RDS. As mentioned before being able to scale our memory and storage needs on the fly has been helpful as we've onboarded additional customers on our web application. We've had very little downtime on AWS as a whole and no real database impact during our usage of Amazon RDS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Real Estate

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"SQL Server"

3/5

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

I like the managed aspect of the amazon offering, and not having to worry about the hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The restrictions to the master database. Some system-wide offerings aren't always available until later. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Highly Recommended"

5/5

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

Scaling a EC2 MySQL cluster in production even with tried and true automation scripts was painful. RDS does that with an easy button. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

None found so far, nothing to comment about this section. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gary H.

Angel Investor

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/14/2017

"Amazon RDS painless MySQL in the cloud"

5/5

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

Simple replication of entire service and data for testing and development cycles. Data Replication (secondary servers -- read only replicant) are simple to set up and take down compared to doing this with home grown solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Had serious issue with ODBC and AWS tech support didn't find or fix it - had to dig deep into JVM threading model to get the problem to go away. Was not their problem nonetheless it manifest only on their platform and it would have been nice if the business class of tech support had actually been able to help solve this instead of constantly pointing in the wrong direction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Make sure you TEST, TEST and TEST some more before committing to the product to ensure you have it working in a production grade capacity. Once there however you're pretty much golden. If you need tech support expect to be on your own as even the paid levels of support do not seem to have a depth of knowledge for serious technical issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Moving self hosted database into DBaaS and found the pricing and performance to be better than what we needed. In short I simply no longer need to worry about most of the database "management" things I had to do -- now everything is just a 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.

Anil J P.

Network Administrator

Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/20/2018

"One of the Best Databases in the Cloud"

3.5/5

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

The ease of setting up a database and get it running quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

if you do not plan initially. costs can quickly spiral out of control, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

A lot of planning is desirable before selecting an RDS. Things to look at are multi region availability, ease of backups, ease of scale. 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 it as a native database. The benefits are no hardware, os, licenses to bother with and availability in different regions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SHAILESH P.

Software Developer

Telecommunications

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/16/2018

"Review about Amazon RDS instance"

4.5/5

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

The ease of use for RDS instance and high availability are the two most important feature i really liked about RDS instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Sometimes it hard to customize some of things like to connect from a local virtual machine server to amazon RDS instance but that is mostly because of security concern i think/ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

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

I use RDS instance with MySql database for storing data for in house developed web application and use maintain some analytics related information too in the schema created on Mysql. Our requirement for that data is to be avaialble 24 * 7 so we chose RDS instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.