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Based on 136 reviews and ratings
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Based on 35 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
- Oracle Database Cloud Service ranks higher in 1 feature set: Database-as-a-Service
Database-as-a-Service
8.7
Amazon RDS
87%
9.7
Oracle Database Cloud Service
97%
Oracle Database Cloud Service ranks higher in 5/6 features
Oracle Database Cloud Service ranks higher in 5/6 features
Automatic software patching
9.1
91%
16 Ratings
9.0
90%
4 Ratings
Database scalability
9.6
96%
16 Ratings
10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Automated backups
9.3
93%
16 Ratings
10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Database security provisions
8.7
87%
15 Ratings
10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics
7.7
77%
16 Ratings
9.0
90%
4 Ratings
Automatic host deployment
8.0
80%
12 Ratings
10.0
100%
4 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
Amazon RDS
93%
51 Ratings
9.0
Oracle Database Cloud Service
90%
4 Ratings
Usability
9.9
Amazon RDS
99%
4 Ratings
Oracle Database Cloud Service
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating
9.2
Amazon RDS
92%
24 Ratings
Oracle Database Cloud Service
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon RDS
Whether your organization is [an] early startup or large company AWS RDS fits in most of the cases such as 1. Easy to start, setup, used by [a] few or large developers team. 2. You can easily scale DB [instances] when your business required scaling as a startup or pay only for [users] to optimize cost as [a] large organization. 3. If your application requires SQL Server, Oracle, or Maria DB then you should use AWS RDS instance. 4. Your application requires better availability and security of data you can use AWS RDS instance. When AWS RDS is not recommended: 1. You need automatic scaling or capacity flexibility as request load gradually increases, better to use Amazon Aurora DB in this case.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Financial Services Company, 201-500 employeesOracle Database Cloud Service
- Cost Effective & Flexible: Customers can start as low as a single OCPU VM up to 24 OCPUs. Customers pay only for OCPUs and Storage used.
- Ease Of Getting Started: Customers can easily create Oracle Certified, full-featured, fully supported 11g, 12c (both 12.1 & 12.2) databases with choice of any database edition.
- Built-in High Availability Constructs: Customers can easily deploy 2-node RAC configurations with all the VM shapes. For example: Easily deploy a 2-node RAC configuration with 2 core Virtual Machines and shared block storage of up to 40 TB.
- Durable & Scalable Storage: Customers can use remote storage starting at 256GB up to 40 TB. Storage can be scale up with no downtime.
- Secure: Customers still get all the advantages of our Oracle IAM for management control and VCN Security lists for securing their database environments.
Technical Lead, AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Centroid SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees
Pros
Amazon RDS
- Setting up and managing a new RDS is just a matter of few clicks.
- Maintaining different version of backup is just like a matter of turning on and off.
- Automatic minor update of database.
- Best restore:- You can even restore to 1 second before time.
Software Engineer
AtlantisInternet, 11-50 employees
Oracle Database Cloud Service
- Eliminates the requirement of hardware and installation.
- Minimizes the cost of operation and maintenance.
- Scalable to meet the increase in requirements.
- Enhances integrity, connectivity and performance of our applications.
- Reliable in terms of data security.
- Improved speed of querying and searching.
Project Manager
Softronic Systems (Pvt) LimitedComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Cons
Amazon RDS
- You don't have os-level or hardware-level access to the system, so all your performance tuning needs to be done within your application or within the parameters of the database engine that amazon allows you to customize.
- Customizations/Extensions to the database engines are impossible, as you don't have OS-level access.
- Migrating in/out of RDS with zero down time can be relatively challenging from a configuration and execution perspective, depending on your infrastructure.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employeesOracle Database Cloud Service
- When we restart the DBaaS instance, it seems like we had to add the NIC network back again. I'm not sure if it's specific to our instance configuration!

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 501-1000 employeesPricing Details
Amazon RDS
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
Free to try. Pay only for what you use with no minimum fee.
Starting Price
$0 per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS Editions & Modules
Edition
Amazon RDS for MySQL | $0.29 ($0.58)1 |
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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL | $0.24 ($0.48)1 |
Amazon RDS for MariaDB | $0.25 ($0.50)1 |
Amazon RDS for Oracle | $0.482 ($0.964)1 |
Amazon RDS for SQL Server | $1.02 ($1.52)1 |
- per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Additional Pricing Details
—Oracle Database Cloud Service
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Oracle Database Cloud Service Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Usability
Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS 9.9
Based on 4 answers
I've been using AWS Relational Database Services in several projects in different environments and from the AWS products, maybe this one together to EC2 are my favourite. They deliver what they promise. Reliable, fast, easy and with a fair price (in comparison to commercial products which have obscure license agreements).
Senior Devops Engineer
SOTIComputer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees
Oracle Database Cloud Service
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS 9.2
Based on 24 answers
I have only had good experiences in working with AWS support. I will admit that my experience comes from the benefit of having a premium tier of support but even working with free-tier accounts I have not had problems getting help with AWS products when needed. And most often, the docs do a pretty good job of explaining how to operate a service so a quick spin through the docs has been useful in solving problems.
Senior Systems Reliability Engineer
The Walt Disney CompanyEntertainment, 10,001+ employees
Oracle Database Cloud Service
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Amazon RDS
[Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)] is much better to have everything in the cloud instead of having it on-premise once you can get all the benefits from Cloud. Of course, it can be a bit expensive if your company it's not growing anymore but if you check it in detail, you can see that the scalability of Cloud makes a lot of sense and also the reliability.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employeesOracle Database Cloud Service
I would prefer the oracle database as service where my complete implementation is on Oracle Cloud Platform and as BI Implementation where datawarehouse is built on oracle database.

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employeesReturn on Investment
Amazon RDS
- RDS has made sure that we don't spend a lot of time resolving issues that are not even remotely relevant to our business use-cases. It has thus made the life of DB administrators easy which allows them to explore other avenues as well.
- Using RDS for around 10 years now, we have never had an issue BECAUSE of RDS. It is a very reliable service.
Software Developer
ezDIHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 201-500 employees
Oracle Database Cloud Service
- Billing on Hosted Environment per hour, OCPU per hour, block volumes, object storage, etc.
- Costing & maintenance, patching.
- Security & TDE cycles.
- Backups & recovery.
- The features are complemented by database lifecycle management features, like configuration management, performance management, patch automation, etc. which make the solution complete from a DBaaS administrator’s perspective as well.
- Manager 12c covers all the major use cases for DBaaS, which yield significant business benefits and high ROI.
Technical Lead, AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Centroid SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees