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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)
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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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| 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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September 25, 2023
RDS is a reliable service for seamless DB management.
We utilize Amazon RDS to host our PostgreSQL database. RDS instance serves as the repository for all our application's data, and it has proven to be highly dependable. One key benefit we found of using RDS is its scalability. We can easily adjust the database capacity to accommodate our growing data needs without significant hassle. This scalability ensures our application can handle increased user demands without compromising performance. Amazon RDS offers convenience in managing database operations. Routine tasks such as backups, software patching, and monitoring are handled seamlessly by the service, freeing up our team to focus on other critical aspects of our application. Also, we've found RDS to be cost-efficient as we pay only for the resources we use; we can effectively manage our database costs and optimize our budget allocation.
- Automated Backups.
- Monitoring and Metrics.
- Scalable Storage.
- Limited DB Engine Version Support.
- Limited Control Over Maintenance Windows.
- Data Portability.
- Improved Staff Productivity.
- Scalability
- Security
Amazon RDS excels with its widely adopted and mature ecosystem, supporting various database engines. While Azure SQL Database offers a tiered pricing structure and automatic patching, and Cloud SQL provides straightforward pricing and easy scaling, Amazon RDS's extensive integration within AWS makes it a preferred choice for those seeking flexibility and a broad range of features.
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- Multi-Tenant SaaS.
- Business Analytics.
- Test Environments.
- Data Replication.
- Time Series Data Storage.
- Serverless Microservices.
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- Scalability
- Integration with Other Systems
- Automated Backups.
- Scaling.
- Monitoring and Alerts.
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March 05, 2021
RDS--database as a service
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is being used by the entire organization (benefits), but managed, when needed, by the IT department. The main problem that it solved was management (backup, daily operations, scaling, etc.), plus the RDS benefits that are related to management (updates, maintenance windows, easier and faster setup to help the administrators).
- Management
- Security
- Backup
- Daily activities
- Monitoring
- Integration with active directory that is not AWS-managed
- Sometimes you change something in configuration and don't know if the instance will reboot
- Some stuff on the main version of the database is not available yet in RDS version
- Fast setup
- Easier to manage
- Shared knowledge inside the team
During the tests, I noticed that the same instance looked a lot slower than the AWS option. This helped us decide to use Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) instead of Azure Databases, even with Microsoft being the SQL Server vendor. They were both easy to set up, but AWS, to me, was faster during setup and during the tests.
September 10, 2019
AWS RDS - Let a huge part of database complexity to be handled by AWS at a fair price.
At my current organization, we are using Amazon Relational Databases as our first option databases, supporting our DevOps environment. Currently, our monitoring system (based on Zabbix) and our configuration management system (based on Puppet) are using it as the main database. In our team, all databases are being based on AWS RDS PostgreSQL so far.
- AWS products on average, excel at high availability. RDS is a good example of that.
- Easy scaling. Just a few clicks.
- Load balancing in a transparent way.
- Sometimes you can't install specific items like modules.
- You are not able to use different DB versions from those provided by AWS.
- AWS keeps DB logs for a short time. If you have a problem and need to check something beyond the retention period, you can't.
- You can easily increase your database environment without a huge investment.
- If you need specific resources that are not available without huge customization, maybe RDS is not the best approach for you.
- AWS also provides its DB flavour, called Aurora, which intends to be faster, reliable and cheaper than traditional commercial solutions like MS SQL Server and Oracle.
Actually you can have most of these tools through AWS Relational Database Service as they are basically those technologies provided as a service. It is way better to have those products provided as a service through a huge and reliable infrastructure like AWS.
September 03, 2019
Amazon Relational Database Service Review
Amazon Relational Database Service is used to host databases accessed by web applications that are on servers hosted within AWS EC2. There is also a database hosted in RDS used by end-user desktop applications.
- As with all AWS services, it is fast and easy to get set up.
- It integrates well with the rest of your infrastructure hosted within AWS.
- The point in time backup/restore options work well.
- There are use cases where you have to delete and recreate your entire database instance just to change one thing.
- SQL Server backup and restore to file is not a simple GUI-driven process.
- Read replicas are not offered for Microsoft SQL databases.
- RDS makes projects much easier. Set up time is decreased, and it is very easy to create and destroy databases as needed for testing.
- The ability to call AWS tech support for database-level issues and advice is a money saver if you don't have a high-end DBA on your team or need someone else to set things up with a little assistance.
- It is cheap and easy to grant secure access to your RDS instances to other companies or divisions of your company that use AWS.
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Setting up your own database servers on EC2 instances is slower and more work. It also doesn't come with tech support for the database. It's usually best to use an AWS service for anything you can, rather than building your own.
August 30, 2019
My experience with Amazon RDS
We use Amazon RDS across our organization to provide website data and data for applications used internally. It allows us to have fully managed MySQL and PostgreSQL instances at our disposal without the headache of maintaining backups and doing minor upgrades manually or setting up redundancy.
- Amazon RDS handles database backups for you and allows you to rollback if needed. This is beneficial because we do not have to take the time to set up and manage our own backup schedule.
- Amazon RDS allows full access control via Security Groups. This is vital to ensure the security of our data.
- With Amazon RDS, we have monitoring capabilities that allow us to trigger actions. This is important because we are not always watching our RDS instance health 24/7.
- Amazon RDS could possibly make the major upgrade process easier somehow.
- Amazon RDS has been an exceptional product in my eyes, so I find it very hard to think of areas it needs to improve.
- Amazon RDS has a great ROI because it costs less than other Cloud providers' offerings in this space and does as much or more.
- Amazon RDS is less expensive to run than on-premise solutions or data-center solutions because of the maintenance attention required.
MS-SQL Server in Azure costs more and/or is slower...but even if you were in a position where the costs were close, you'd still have the fact that Amazon Relational Database Service is more mature and resilient in the Cloud Managed Database environment to tip the scales toward Amazon RDS for me.