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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 Internet

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/25/2018

"Zero maintenance database"

4.5/5

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

There is no need to setup and maintain the database instance manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

There isn't really cheap option to get started with smaller projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

If you don't want to worry about managing your own server instances it's a really good solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Reducing management cost of the infrastructure by using managed services instead Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/24/2018

"Exceptional service"

4/5

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

Ease of use, Flexibility, Support and Scale-out, replication Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

RDS does not grant users SUPER privilege and this becomes annoying for someone who is used to having it on MySQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

AWS RDS is a highly available relational database that offers a feature called Multi-AZ, which provides a SLA up-time of 99.95%. With the Multi-AZ feature enabled in a production database, AWS provides a synchronous “standby” replica of every database in another “zone.” Since both the database and its replica are in sync, there is no chance of data loss. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hamid I.

Network Engineer

Government Administration

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/25/2018

"Not bad, a bit confusing"

3.5/5

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

What I like the best about the product is that it has all the features you need and even more, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

What I really don't like about the product is that it is extremely NOT user friendly even for a tech savy professional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ilan J.

Software Asset Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/20/2018

"great platform to allow sharing information/data in the cloud"

4/5

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

comes from one of the most reputable vendors in the world and makes you feel secure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

have not found a thing to dislike as long as the security is in place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matthew K.

Senior Cloud Engineer / Enterprise Architect

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/30/2018

"RDS aid the future of databases"

5/5

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

I love how simple it is to setup oracle especially in highly available situations so that the ease of transitioning to the cloud is just as simpler process overall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I wish there was a tad bit more customizability with how it’s ran. It’s not a horrible thing, but the set it and forget it leaves a tad bit more for a power user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Simple easy to use interface that makes managing complex databases easy in the AWS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Oracle spatial data moved into the cloud for a weblogic configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/29/2018

"Extremely powerful relational database manager to manage SQL DBs"

4/5

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

The AWS integration of mySQL, PostgreSQL, and other database services have made RDS extremely powerful and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I dislike that I cannot run my databases natively in Postgres and then just move them to RDS when I need to host or use the data in an EC2 instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Ensure that RDS plays nicely when integrating databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Currently, we use RDS to host and manage all of our databases. It's beneficial as we can run relational and non-relational databases at the same time without any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Goods

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/19/2018

"Great Product - Buy Support"

5/5

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

Really nice to have backups taken care of for you! Make sure to ready the limitations for sql server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Limitations apply for sql server. I had to research carefully to make sure it would work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/17/2018

"Stable hosting for the most important thing - your data"

4/5

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

I love the way Amazon RDS allows you to set up backup strategies and allow you to protect your data using VPC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The cost for Microsoft SQL Server hosting is a bit high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/24/2018

"Easy to set up and easy to use"

5/5

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

That you can install a database quickly and easily. Back in the "old days" you'd build out a whole LAMP install. Or a complete data center. Now you can just install a database and be good to go. Awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The cost can get high and it can be cheaper to just install you own on an EC2 instance.

Also it gets complex pretty quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/25/2018

"Reliable DB as a service offering"

4.5/5

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

Very reliable, reasonably priced, good management interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Performance management is not easy, when the DB is overwhelmed it is very hard to find out what is went wrong. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.