AWS RDS is not a choice its a necessary!
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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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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)
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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.
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 Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | NAMER, APAC, LATAM, EMEA |
| Supported Languages | English, French, Korean, Chinese, Japanese |
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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) from Amazon Web Services.
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The most common users of Amazon RDS are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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March 26, 2024
AWS RDS is not a choice its a necessary!
- Reduced mannual effort
- Better Managed
- Reliable
- High velocity of product development.
- Super easy to manage CMS. Cheap man power cost.
- Quick learning curve, improves resource productivity.
February 24, 2024
Fully Managed RDS (Relational Database Service) by AWS
- Improved Database Admin tasks like Setup of Backup, Disaster Recovery
- Reduced Downtime due to featured like Multi AZ, Read Replicas, Proxy
- Improved Security by features like EC2 instance connect to access DB securely
- User Experience improved due to Read/Write Query improvements followed by suggestions from Enhanced and Performance monitorings
January 16, 2024
AWS RDS a good use case
- Easy to monitor the resources been consumed and the cost of it
- Higher availability
- No need to invest in additional hardware
- Enabled generation of business reports
- Enabled storing user data in a reliable way
- Complied with our governance framework
November 21, 2023
Amazon RDS: Elevating Database Management in the Cloud
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
- higher staff performance
- reduced TCO
- higher availability
- less outages
November 20, 2023
A Database that you can really trust if you have the pockets
- The overall cost increases, but we spect this and we can mitigate other risks.
- Is easy to work from the cloud. Is reliable, but we keep our local solution as well where RDS works quite good.
- RDS allow us to focurs on owr objetives instead of the other matters regarding databases.
October 19, 2023
Amazon RDS is the best cloud-native database service.
- It has allowed us to manage our database without hardware investments.
- It eases the compliance process (ISO 27001 and PCI-DSS).
- It helps us scale our database.
October 10, 2023
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) performance
- Cost of the ec2 instance
- Impacted downtime from AWS
October 09, 2023
Amazon RDS review
- Increased productivity
- Reduced administrative burden
- Easy database maintaince
October 09, 2023
Easy Relational Database setup in Cloud - RDS
- lower cost
- Manageability
- Easy scalability
October 07, 2023
Amazon RDS review
- Risk mitigation - Reduced risk of data loss and performance of the systems
- Less operational burden on teams (Better scalability, HA and DR)
October 05, 2023
Robust RDBMS in cloud-Does its job
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
- Our application's data is much more secure & resilient.
- Increased overall productivity of staff due to very little time needed for DB maintenance.
- Data Redundancy across different AZs increased data integrity.
October 05, 2023
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Review General
- lower cost
October 05, 2023
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) provides the best service among its competitors!
- RDS decreases the administrative load associated with database administration greatly.
- RDS enables you to swiftly provision and scale database instances, allowing for quicker application development and deployment.
October 05, 2023
Amazon RDS- solution for fast paced development
- Low cost
- High availability
- Rapid development
- Developer friendly
October 04, 2023
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) with multi features
- definitely it's a good choice rather than onprem DB server
- easily confuragable without much administrator knowledge
- cost-effective
- value for money
September 30, 2023
My first impressions with aws
- Well, nowadays it is essential to have a reliable tool... especially when it comes to databases.
- It is very important that the infrastructure is prepared to grow and for that, a service of these characteristics is essential because it allows instant growth.
- Highly available, highly reliable
- Very little maintenance required
- Minimal administrative maintenance frees developers to work on other tasks
September 29, 2023
Seamless Database Management with Amazon RDS
- Cost Savings
- Increased Productivity
- Faster Deployment
- High Availability
- A drawback is the restricted level of control available within RDS.
September 28, 2023
Worthful for medium sized teams
- RDS is costly and thus small business should avoid it as it might not be worthful (in ROI perspective)
- Downtime is very low and there are automated backups thus we dont have to worry much about technical stuff and can focus more on marketing and sales
- Due to various automated features such as automated backup etc we dont need a huge technical team thus reducing the cost of maintaining a huge technical team ,
September 28, 2023
Simplified yet robust relational database service
- Supports business continuity planning and implementation in respect to replication and failover
- Reduction in cost to run compared to competitors
- Flexibility to work with many 3rd party technology solutions allows for faster prototyping and quicker time to market of products
September 27, 2023
Universal, Easy to Use RDS
- Understanding player experience
- Insight as to how/what types of live updates are proving most successful
September 26, 2023
AWS RDS, All you need for MySql services
- Increased reliability
- lower some of our DB mainentence costs
September 26, 2023
A good tool, but not for the inexperienced or faint of heart.
- Automatically scaling DB bandwidth and processor to meet demand means highly reduced possibility of downtime.
- Complexity of the tools means we rely heavily on expert availability to resolve issues.
- Industry standard deployments help us bootstrap testing and staging sites quickly.