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Amazon RDS

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What is Amazon RDS?

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) from Amazon Web Services.

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9 out of 10
October 09, 2023
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RDS simplifies database management tasks like provisioning, patching, backup, recovery etc. This reduces the administrative burden and …
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Amazon RDS review

9 out of 10
October 07, 2023
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In my organization we use Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for storing relational data which is used by our Internal teams for …
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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

$0.24 ($0.48)

Cloud
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)

Amazon RDS for MariaDB

$0.25 ($0.50)

Cloud
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)

Amazon RDS for MySQL

$0.29 ($0.58)

Cloud
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
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Product Details

What is Amazon RDS?

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) allows users to set up, operate, and scale a database in the cloud. The vendor states it provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, setup, patching, and backups. This frees users to focus on applications so they can give them the fast performance, high availability, security, and compatibility they need.

Amazon RDS is available on several database instance types - optimized for memory, performance or I/O - and provides you with six familiar database engines to choose from including Amazon Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database, and SQL Server.

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Amazon RDS Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesNAMER, APAC, LATAM, EMEA
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, Korean, Chinese, Japanese

Frequently Asked Questions

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) from Amazon Web Services.

Oracle Database, Google Cloud SQL, and Microsoft SQL Server are common alternatives for Amazon RDS.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.6.

The most common users of Amazon RDS are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For a quick, dependable and fairly easy launch of a database instance, with a low-touch (or even almost no-touch) experience - it is just great.
For more advanced situations, it might be a limiting factor, e.g. smart backup and restore, user management, toggling on encryption-at-rest etc.
Rohan Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Many administrative duties related to database maintenance, including backups, patching, and monitoring, are handled by AWS. As a result, our team concentrate on application development rather than database upkeep. RDS is appropriate for a variety of applications since it supports a number of database engines, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MariaDB.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
it is a great tool when you are looking for a data base that provides security in terms of availability, cyber security and features. The possibility to manage various DB with significant size provides a confidence to both, the tool and the provider. The control of the accesses of the users is important and it is well managed.
Harshal Sanap | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
With the rapid growth of product offerings and increasing customer demand, managing inventory efficiently has become a complex challenge for many businesses. Traditional self-hosted databases are often struggling to keep up with the scale and complexity of modern inventory management operations. Businesses face issues with data consistency, performance bottlenecks, and inventory tracking accuracy. where the AWS RDS comes into picture to minimise our problems such as scalability , High Availability , Data Integrity, and Security.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon RDS is a great choice for web apps, e-commerce sites, and content management systems needing a dependable and scalable database. It's perfect for businesses analyzing data and SaaS applications. But if your setup requires ultra-customized databases, or if you frequently switch cloud providers, consider other options. For read-heavy loads, explore NoSQL or caching services.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is suited for running production loads since it is highly available and can be auto scaled. With few clicks a fully managed database is spun up and hence setup is very easy. It offers AWS management console, RDS api calls and the command line interface for interacting with the data.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For long term application and AWS Ecosystem it is good to use. If you are planning to use only the RDS and Engine service from other provider then it is not that much worthful. Encryption, auto-backups and some other services of Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) are very good but this comes with add-on pricing.
Salam Mohammed | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
-No need to install on Server
-Easy to scale up and define config
-Easy to connect just passing the config url
-Easy to see the logs compared to any RDS logs in the server.
Mohammad Aarif | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
#It is most suitable and proper for web applications where we use RDBMS(Relational database). #E-Commerce Platforms: Because RDS is scalable and can handle changing workloads during sales events or seasonal traffic spikes, e-commerce platforms, and online retailers can profit from it. #RDS can offer a safe and scalable alternative for mobile apps that frequently need a backend database for user data.

*Not well managed on the migration of databases.
*RDS does not support advanced features that are unique to some database engines.
September 22, 2023

RDS to the rescue

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Suited for highly normalized data and retrieval. If you're looking to just pull records by keys with frequent lookups at high speed and scale more cost effectively no sql is better option like mongodb. If look for temporal data management time series db is ideal
David Williams | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is well-suited to running your relational databases in a serverless way, without having to manage a VM to run them. It makes licensing and scalability easier, and also comes with recommendations and automated version upgrades. However, by the same token, there are some limitations; e.g., you can't edit or manage all SQL Server parameter options; you have a limit on the number of databases you can have; and you don't get sysadmin access to the underlying SQL Server.
Animesh Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
When we need to store the data that is structured and we know the format of the new entries then it is best to use Amazon RDS as a cloud service.
It may not be well suited when the data is not structured and the new entries may have a different format.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon RDS finds its strengths in various scenarios where reliability, scalability, and ease of management are essential. It is particularly well-suited for web applications and e-commerce platforms that need a dependable and adaptable database backend. Content Management Systems (CMS) also benefit from Amazon RDS due to its straightforward setup and management. Similarly, For businesses reliant on data analytics and reporting, Amazon RDS is an ideal choice. In these scenarios, the ability to support data-intensive workloads through features like Read Replicas and vertical scalability is crucial.

However, there are scenarios where Amazon RDS may not be the optimal choice. Organizations with highly specialized database configurations that demand fine-tuned control over hardware resources might find Amazon RDS limiting. The service abstracts much of the underlying infrastructure, potentially hindering extensive customization.
Nir Levy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
AWS RDS is a good candidate if you are looking for a semi-managed RDBMS solution running any of the supported engines. This assumes, of course, that your workloads are running on AWS and you want simple connection scenarios. While running complex scenarios is also possible it will require more effort for setup and maintenance. Also, if you need automated backup and the ability to grow your servers as your data grows, RDS would be a good solution.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
RDS is an excellent cloud based managed database platform that has all the features you would expect from a major cloud provider. It is well accepted in the community for any use case where a relational database is required. It supports a wide variety of database engines to choose from.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is ideal for a new application built with cutting-edge technologies and a microservices architecture that calls for a HA RDMS database. RDS is a fantastic fit and performs admirably for a general-purpose job.
Ralph Vanore | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For our small team of developers, RDS makes it easy for us to manage many databases simply. Working mostly with MySQL databases we can easily scale and resize our dbs as well as create and restore backups. One drawback is that AWS security is outside of our ability, so we must rely on an IAM administrator who controls access.
September 21, 2023

Amazing RDS

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For someone looking for a cost-efficient, easily scalable, and maintainable solution, RDS is the best choice for a database solution given by Amazon. Some of its best features are its automatic failover capability with multi-az read replica and its support database clusters for maximizing the availability of the product.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well suited : If you are handling huge data and want to give high performance and also do scrubbing to the data based on the requirements

Less Approproiate : Machine Learning and R Services are not available in Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Limited support for Linked Servers
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you need a SQL database Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) provides multiple options for all flavors. It also delivers easy management and pretty decent speeds. If you have non relational data then it is better to avoid it instead of making workarounds to make it work. Today some of the RDS options do offer more modern data structure and might fit.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you want managed service then it is the best use case for you. You get lots of things out of the box compared to managing you data base your yourself. For people who are actual DB admins and want to control everything on their own or need on-premises deployment should not go for this service.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
With Amazon Rational Database, DBs are configurable in every aspect. You can configure it according to your needs moreover AWS also says best practices that would be best to implement, for example to set up Multi-AZ Database or create an autoscaling function.On the other hand, I find RDS less suitable for the less experienced. The configuration is complex and if you do not know beve where and what to configure.
Tung Vu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you need a relational database without the know-how or the proclivity to setup, configure, & operate it, then a managed database service is your best choice. Not just the DB itself, but using managed service also gives you the comprehensive IAM, auto scaling, managed upgrade, basically all the bells & whistles that you are paying for when using a managed cloud service.

Of course, using managed service is more expensive than doing everything yourself. Using RDS costs more than setting up PostgreSQL/MySQL on a cloud VM yourself, which in turn costs more than using your own on-premise VM. If you are not using cloud service for other things and/or just need a simple database without any HA/SLA then naturally you should not start using AWS just for RDS.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Scenario Where It's Well Suited:
Firstly it meets our requirements to provide the latency free operations to our customers present across the globe.
2. It also provides the read-replica capabilities for heavy workloads.
3. With it's automated backup we our worry free of any mishaps in our system.
4. It is less appropriate for us lies only for the costing purpose as it's bit costlier.



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