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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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Amazon RDS review

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
Incentivized
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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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Alok Pabalkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alok Pabalkar
Co-Founder & CTO
GIDE.AI (Internet, 11-50 employees)
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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
    Optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing/?trk…

Offerings

  • 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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September 15, 2023

RDS is great for your company

Diego Turcios Lara | TrustRadius Reviewer
Diego Turcios Lara
Devops Engineer
Acklen Avenue (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support Rating
8
I have never used the customer service of Amazon. But the great advantage of AWS is the community support, you can get a lot of help in any internet forum, so this is really good. So if you feel that isn't in your budget remember you can count on the internet.
March 08, 2021

Your DBA will be glad that you're using RDS

Michael Jenkins | TrustRadius Reviewer
Michael Jenkins
Senior Systems Reliability Engineer
The Walt Disney Company (Entertainment, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support Rating
9
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.
March 05, 2021

RDS--database as a service

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Banking Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support Rating
10
I needed to use support sometimes. And AWS support is really, very good. From documentation to live support (chat/e-mail/etc.), it all really helps. And if you have some question, the support helps, from auditing stuff to adding parameters, or even with optimization. They try always to help more than we need, and this, to me, is very good. It's like a spare DBA waiting to help you.
February 12, 2020

A to Z, EZ PZ to use and as flexible as the Amazon marketplace.

Mike Narumiya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mike Narumiya
President, Principal
Klaxon IT Solutions (Hospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support Rating
9
The product is fairly straight forward to use, and staff as well as knowledge base is pretty good for getting answers you may need. The product is a great, flexible alternative to adding to one's own in-house infrastructure. It's especially useful for environments that you aren't sure about the overall long term need. Amazon Relational Database Service is great for environments that once you determine the long term need, can be maintained by Amazon.
December 31, 2019

Mobile Gaming Developers Sing ARDS Praises

Verified User
Professional in Corporate
Marketing and Advertising Company, 11-50 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support Rating
10
As I said earlier, ARDS checked off all of the requirement boxes. And when we needed assistance with any problems we ran into, their support staff was there to help. Simple problems can be fixed quickly. Larger problems might require spending money to get consulting hours on the project so experts can help course correct.
October 25, 2019

RDS lives up to the ability for fast, secure, and configurable databases

Matthew King | TrustRadius Reviewer
Matthew King
Technical Manager
Octo Consulting Group (Computer & Network Security, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support Rating
10
Support for overall AWS services is a 10. We had one issue with creating a dev / stage / prod database within Aurora and a quick call with Amazon allowed us to figure out the issues we were having and it was determined it was how we were creating our initial setup of the databases.
September 12, 2019

Great value for any sized team

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Internet Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support Rating
10
Amazon support is always top-notch. You get immediate feedback on whatever you are working through and given several resources on how to resolve them. Additionally, they are able to do some things for us, meaning we don't need to have a database administrator around at all time to implement their suggestions.
September 10, 2019

AWS RDS - Let a huge part of database complexity to be handled by AWS at a fair price.

Erlon Sousa Pinheiro | TrustRadius Reviewer
Erlon Sousa Pinheiro
Senior Devops Engineer
SOTI (Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support Rating
5
I had some situations where I expected more from the RDS support team. Basically, you can't trust RDS 100% (like any other product). You need to monitor it yourself, check backups, maybe extract those database logs from AWS and store in a local resource.
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