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RDS. Dead simple database administration
Updated March 27, 2017

RDS. Dead simple database administration

Josh Q | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Relational Database Service

We use it as a backend for web applications running in AWS. Using RDS over traditional database servers eliminates much of the administration overhead while providing easy and reliable backups and replication.
  • Built in real-time backups
  • Uncomplicated replication
  • Easy performance tuning
  • Secure disk
  • No access to underlying OS
  • MS SQL poorly supported
  • Reduced administration costs.
  • Increased reliability.
  • Increased security.
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Much less administration overhead with RDS.
Ansible, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon CloudWatch
Using it for MySQL or postgresql is a no brainier. MS SQL and Oracle support may not be a fit depending on use case.