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AWS RDS for Testing and POC
March 09, 2017

AWS RDS for Testing and POC

Michael Jipping | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Relational Database Service

We used Amazon Relational Database Service to administer an SQL Server versus hosting it on site. This was a project aimed at testing functionality for a highly available failover HL7 system. It met our expectations for managing the database for this application. When we were finished with this Proof of Concept project we decided the latency was too great at the moment and would wait for improved infrastructure improvements to the AWS Cloud. The best part of the whole exercise is that we were able to terminate the instance and only run it while we were testing. No major infrastructure investment was required other than the time we used the instance.
  • It is flexible for when you need it and how you need it. You can configure it to meet your requirements for performance and relaibility.
  • Ease of set up, just a few clicks with a secure communication.
  • The ability for use over our VPN by name versus IP would have been one of the features we would have liked to have.
  • These are still in development, no negative impact. When we had to stop using the RDS it actually saved us money versus our other options.
Azure and AWS RDS are very similar, both have similar capabilities and functions. When you need it, the aspect of only being charged for a running instance is very nice.
[It's well suited] when you need a flexible solution that will not require you to invest heavily in equipment and software for testing, QA, or development. A high I/O or low latency requirement may not be the best use case for this product. In time this will all improve. Not all applications function in the cloud either so make sure you work with your vendor if it's a third party integration.