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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 Telecommunications

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

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

"Solution Architect"

4.5/5

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

Ease of setup and cloudformation templates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The customization to cloudformation templates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/17/2018

"Review about Amazon RDS "

3/5

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

The product is simple and intuitive to use. It doesn't have the learning curve that traditional relational database services have that require a lot of configuring. It makes hosting a relational database very easy due to the tools already built in, like automated backups. I also like the security options that it includes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is rather costly so not a good tool to implement for a small business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is good for a company that can afford it but the price to performance ratio is rather high. 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 MS SQL database to store a massive amount of data. We use the database very intensively and run hundreds of thousands of queries daily, so Amazon RDS is very good for our scaling needs. The performance is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"Rde works well for any kind of dB workload"

4.5/5

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

Aurora 0 hour downtime upgrade for upgrades Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Slow creation time and slow workflow processing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Entertainment

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/26/2018

"Database Review"

4.5/5

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

Integration with admin console, CLI tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Limited Admin Support , Oracle 12c container management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Administration

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

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

"Easy to use without the need for infrasture setup"

5/5

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

Works transparently, does what we need.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

None so far.............................. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kris S.

Software Engineer II

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/24/2018

"Amazon RDS works"

5/5

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

Well documented and easy to use user interface. Was very easy to get our postgres sql DB running on amazon rds. Also awesome multiple configuration options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

None really. Interfacing with it was simple and once our instance was up and running there wasn't much needed on our end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

None really. Documentation was solid and was great being under Amazon ecosystem while at FiscalNote (handled our deploys as well). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We used RDS to store user generated data for our web app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/7/2018

"Your Database In the Cloud"

4/5

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

Easy to use and manage by console and also by command line. Easy health monitoring, and connects well in with the other Amazon Web Services products. Enables you to easily upgrade an instance without impacting the database data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's expensive. Amazon heavily pushes Aurora over MYSQL which isn't always the best solution in real world tests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Perform a cost calculation prior to starting to use Amazon RDS so you are across how much you will spend on a monthly basis. Consider the region in which you need your databases in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

RDS is used to manage two relational databases for the website that I manage. It is used to provide automatic and manual snapshots (effectively backups) and also to provide a near real tiime mirror to Domo our business analytics platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/26/2018

"Solid database service"

4.5/5

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

easy to set up and provision new RDS instances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Occasionally Amazon will depreciate a particular version and you are forced to "do some work" to migrate your database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

If you need a simple and fast way to scale your database then RDS is the right choose.

If you don't need to scale, or you are searching for a cheap solution avoid 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 reduce the mysql maintenance work of our databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/24/2018

"Amazon RDS has its place"

4/5

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

Very easy to use. Quick provisioning. Mostly hands off for admin Duties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Expensive for full time use. No access to OS. No sysdba access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/20/2018

"Multi Support DB Platform"

5/5

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

All AWS services are easy to use, setup on cloud. Aamzon RDS is very flexible, scalable. It allows easy backup and has super awesome performance and is very reliable. It also allows to use your existing license to use with it's services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.