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Amazon RDS

Overview

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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Pricing

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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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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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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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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
RDS helps us with the management of our database - setup, version upgrades, backups, optimization, configuration management and so on. It saves us a lot of time.
Rohan Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Adding read replicas or growing our database laterally (by adding instances) or vertically (by increasing instance size) is simple with RDS. This adaptability guarantees that our database can manage rising workloads. RDS offers daily automated backups and lets our specify retention times. Providing choices for data recovery, we can restore our database to any point throughout the retention term.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
A certain business school have several data bases that are permanently updated with data coming from various sources. The challenge is that these data have several formats and templates, making it compliex to manage in an efficient and economic way. The need for a tool such as Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) was imperative to improve management.
Harshal Sanap | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
During one of our recent e-commerce projects, we encountered a significant database infrastructure challenge. The rapid growth in product listings and customer data led to frustratingly slow response times and concerns about data integrity. To address these issues, we made a strategic decision to migrate our database to Amazon RDS, which proved to be highly effective in bringing about remarkable improvements. Amazon RDS became the cornerstone of our database management strategy, offering enhanced reliability and high availability through automated backups and multi-AZ deployments. These RDS features ensured that our database remained up-to-date, secure, and consistently accessible for seamless operations. In particular, Amazon RDS played a pivotal role in significantly boosting website performance, elevating data reliability, and establishing a cost-efficient approach to database management. These contributions were instrumental in the overall success of our project, highlighting the transformative impact of Amazon RDS on our e-commerce venture.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is simple to setup and makes scaling database in cloud a very easy task during high load scenarios. It supports backup and recovery. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) offers identity management that ensures people with assigned roles can only access the data. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) ensures availability of the workloads at all times and hence suited for production. It offers third party integrations also.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using it for storing our mysql and postgress database. We are alreardy using the AWS EC2 as compute engine so it makes easy to access it within the internal access and for better security purposes. So any external person cannot access it and our database remains safe. We are owning multiple RDS Engines for different product services.
Salam Mohammed | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon RDS is easier to configure for any application that has structured data. Use cases such as User profiling, referencing, Indexing for filters & dashboard reporting are easier to handle with Amazon RDS.
Scope of the RDS has broader spectrum but it includes adding/Editing/handling Use case history, audit log, and rational Data in flat tables.

Mohammad Aarif | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Amazon RDS helps set up, run, and grow relational databases in the cloud with the aid of Amazon RDS, a managed relational database service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). There are several, but I'd want to focus on the most significant ones.
a)global Scope
b)cost-effectiveness
c)Security and many more
September 22, 2023

RDS to the rescue

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use RDS to back majority of our transactional data for our insurance sales platform. It enables easier maintenance by our operations team compared to an on prem instance from provisioning new instances to configuration changes to our ability to scale and support backs and DR.
David Williams | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) as a back-end database for our applications, both those we consume (as on-prem apps, not SaaS) and those we create for our customers (as a SaaS organisation ourselves). Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) allows us to manage our databases in a serverless way, with scalability and with Amazon recommendations and management, without the overhead of running a server.
Animesh Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We need to store the persistent data such as order information and other insurance related information in a database for which we use Amazon RDS.
Our business revolves around being able to store the order data and keep it in sync with the real time changes in order data and then finally get an outcome for that order. RDS has been a service of choice for us as it has high concurrency and low latency as well as disaster recovery built into it.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Based on business model, my team has used Amazon RDS for data analytics, application development and testing, real-time monitoring, and importantly to our public image, Customer relationship management. During the course of use in my organization, Amazon RDS has been used to address Data security concerns, including data breaches by bolstering encryption mechanisms. The software has also been used to address scalability through scaling our database operations vertically and horizontally.
Nir Levy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Amazon RDS at our company as a primary database service for one of our major product lines. Using RDS proved to be easy and straightforward both to deploy and to manage. Deployment of new RDS services is simple and requires no special knowledge, but you should plan ahead with proper capacity planning. The built-in optimization features allowed us to quickly identify slow and expensive queries so we could optimize them and improve overall system performance while reducing system size. Having integrated backup solutions in RDS was also very useful and being able to run multiple databases on the same RDS server, allowed us to optimize for cost as well. All in all, I recommend using RDS both for development and production workloads.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
A group of managed services known as Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it simple to set up, run, and scale databases in the cloud. We required a dependable and scalable database service because we run some highly trafficked websites. Our issue is that we run at least two database engines concurrently. then we use Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Ralph Vanore | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use RDS to power our custom programs and applications. We are a bolting company with a wide range of data sets. We collect tool data in the field and expose it through an endpoint for other systems like SAP and MSDCRM. We enhance our custom programming by utilizing customer and location data to give our clients full visibility of their equipment and maintenance records. Multi-availability zones, full backup and restore capability on both our PROD and UAT instances, and monitoring help us stay on top of our database performance.
September 21, 2023

Amazing RDS

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use RDS to host our database with ECS. All our data goes into RDS, which is easy to maintain and scale. RDS solves our main problem, which is cost. It is cost-efficient and faster, giving our product a seamless database service.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We get huge amount of data for market research and data grows day to day. We found Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) was a best solution to handle such huge data and till now we are good at performance and handling the data
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) as our main database to store daily data from our application. We need to store different kind of data generated from our application and we need to ensure it is always available and with multiple layers of security/redundancy to avoid downtime and to comply with compliance standards.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using it as a managed service for our Postgres database management. It is easy to use, maintain, and configure, with no administration headache, logging and monitoring come out of the box. It also supports backups and recovery. It has all the security considerations that we need for production-scale database.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
we used AWS Rational Database as we needed to migrate a PostreSql database from another cloud provider to AWS. We needed a database that was reliable and high performance but at the same time also cost effective and configurable to my company's high security standards. The Database also had to be connected to the Backend inside a VPC with no possibility of being exposed to the public.
Tung Vu | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My team built a new app from scratch, & when we need to select a relational database, AWS RDS came naturally. The majority of the company's infrastructure are on AWS already. Needless to say, we setup a new RDS cluster from scratch, discover new requirements to our need, then upscale / upgrade the cluster multiple times already. Not having to get our hands dirty with all the configuration & operation specifics of MySQL is just pure bliss.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)for storing all our data, and it served us a purpose of providing Database accessibility also it's regional availability helps us in maintaining database across various regions to provide latency free operations to our customers. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is basically a relational database service offering from AWS Cloud.
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