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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 Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/17/2018

"Simple but expensive"

3.5/5

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

SQL database. Easy to set up. Simple user interface. Reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The credential information changes (host, password, username, etc.) each time you need to bind your service to this database, which can become frustrating. The user interface limits the number of records you can view, making you think not all records were published. The database is relatively expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vamshi P.

Software Engineer 2

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/1/2017

"Makes analystics simple"

4/5

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

- I like the simplicity of the product. RDBMS can be brought up and purged on-demand. Traditional DBMS have a great deal of maintenance including configuring, networking and storage management.

- Integrates well with other AWS products like EC2 and S3.

- Great security with options like VPC and security groups.

- Inbuilt alerting around db critical functionalities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

- powerful instances are little bit expensive.

- good to have autoscaling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Great choice for hosting RDS in a cloud. Almost zero configuration. 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 it to primarily host my shared database mysql server. This along with S3 can make analytics very simple. Hive metastore runs on mysql RDS hosted at AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/25/2018

"Good product"

3.5/5

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

It was very easy to set up and it allows for overnight upgrades, which is useful when our customers are in the same time zone as us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The pricing of RDS is more expensive when compared to EC2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kelly F.

Graduate Research Assistant

Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/1/2018

"Time efficient and convenient "

2.5/5

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

It’s is cost efficient, easy to manage, and convenient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It’s not entirely user friendly. There’s definitely a learning curve when starting to use the software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/19/2018

"Amazing services with amazing performance"

4/5

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

Automated backup, redundancy and better security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Pricing is not cheap compared with other services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/30/2018

"Amazon RDS - Great Autoscaling Cloud Based Data Engines"

5/5

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

Auto-scalability, great performance and a great selection of engines to suit many needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Nothing, have been very happy with Aurora. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Definitely try AWS RDS solutions particularly Aurora if you are currently running a MySQL backend. Performance is great and scalability is fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Currently using AWS Aurora DB for a direct replacement of MySQL for our ecommerce site and DynamoDB for our Apple iPhone back end requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Publishing

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/30/2018

"Easier than SELECT *"

5/5

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

Fast setup, easy configuration, easily scalable, industry standards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Cost can be prohibitive if you don’t have your DB instances properly sized/cached. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/21/2018

"RDS instance with apache calcite"

4.5/5

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

Starting RDS instances with databases was flawless and easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Adding security groups for RDS was tricky Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marcos D.

Senior DBA

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/20/2018

"Good and envolving"

4/5

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

General environment reliability and simple and effective backup solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Too many server class options with too many variables to consider Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/1/2018

"Using RDS for Full Stack Development"

4.5/5

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

We are using an AWS cloud infrastructure for our product and RDS integrates well with the rest of the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.