What is Amazon RDS?

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) streamlines the creation, administration, and scaling of relational databases in the cloud. It presents a budget-friendly and flexible capacity option while handling time-consuming management activities such as hardware setup, database configuration, applying updates, and conducting backups. This enables you to focus on enhancing your applications, ensuring they deliver optimal performance, robust availability, security, and compatibility. Amazon RDS provides a variety of database instance types tailored for memory, performance, or I/O optimization and supports a range of six popular database engines, including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database, and SQL Server. Furthermore, the AWS Database Migration Service simplifies the process of moving or replicating your current databases to Amazon RDS, ensuring an easy and efficient transition. Ultimately, Amazon RDS equips organizations with powerful database solutions while alleviating the complexities associated with management tasks. By choosing this service, businesses can gain more agility and focus on innovation instead of maintenance.

Pricing

Price Starts At:
$0.01 per month
Free Trial Offered?:
Yes

Screenshots and Video

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Company Facts

Company Name:
Amazon
Date Founded:
1994
Company Location:
United States
Company Website:
aws.amazon.com/rds/

Product Details

Deployment
SaaS
Training Options
Documentation Hub
Online Training
Webinars
Support
Standard Support
Web-Based Support

Product Details

Target Company Sizes
Individual
1-10
11-50
51-200
201-500
501-1000
1001-5000
5001-10000
10001+
Target Organization Types
Mid Size Business
Small Business
Enterprise
Freelance
Nonprofit
Government
Startup
Supported Languages
English

Amazon RDS Categories and Features

RDBMS Software

Backup
Data Migration
Monitoring
Performance Analysis
Queries
Storage Optimization

Database Software

Backup and Recovery
Creation / Development
Data Migration
Data Replication
Data Search
Data Security
Database Conversion
Mobile Access
Monitoring
NOSQL
Performance Analysis
Queries
Relational Interface
Virtualization

Amazon RDS Customer Reviews

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  • Reviewer Name: Aman V.
    Position: Technical Lead
    Has used product for: Free Trial
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 20,000 or More
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    Powerful Database as a service

    Date: Apr 03 2022
    Summary

    Amazon RDS is a Database as a service which may not be easy to setup by new developers but makes up in the features department. It offers lots of controls and is highly reliable making it a great choice for database while developing and deploying apps on cloud.

    Positive

    Reliable database.
    Highly available.
    Supports a variety of db - My, Postgre, Maria, Oracle, Ms.
    Works great with Amazon Aurora.
    Great security policies.
    Available as a part of free tier (750 hours per month usage).

    Negative

    Initial setup and data migration is complex - the process should be streamlined for new users.
    Expensive.

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  • Reviewer Name: Rohan J.
    Position: Software Developer
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Weekly
    Org Size (# of Employees): 100 - 499
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    Database made easy

    Date: May 26 2020
    Summary

    RDS can be used to create a highly scalable, secure and robust database system with very less effort. It's fully managed nature and decent pricing structure makes it well suited for any organization, small to enterprise.

    Positive

    Easy to set up with minimal configuration.
    Managed service.
    Multi zone presence leads to high availability.
    Scalable based on demand.
    Automated patching and backups.
    CloudWatch integration - Better monitoring.

    Negative

    Limited for advanced users as no direct access to underlying server.

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  • Reviewer Name: A Verified Reviewer
    Position: System Engineer
    Has used product for: 1-2 Years
    Uses the product: Daily
    Org Size (# of Employees): 20,000 or More
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    Managed relational database service

    Date: Sep 08 2020
    Summary

    Amazon RDS is a database as a service offered by Amazon which is quite powerful. It is a convenient way for developers to plug in database into their apps on AWS.

    Positive

    Amazon RDS is a relational database service. It is a part of AWS Stack and integrates well with other services.It is a reliable and powerful service with a lot of configuration options for advanced users. It is a part of free tier which allows limited free usage for first year.

    Negative

    It is easy to use once setup But the setup itself is a bit complicated and not beginner friendly. Also pricing scales pretty quickly for db intensive operations like frequent updation.

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