For High availability -Relational Database Service are optimized solution
November 09, 2017
For High availability -Relational Database Service are optimized solution
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Relational Database Service
RDS manages replication if databases are in multiple-avaliable zones.
- Easy to handle master and slave nodes
- Synchronization of data between the instances
- Easy to administrate with AWS console
- RDS is much more expensive than MySQL+EC2.
- Provides you with six familiar database engines to choose from, including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.
- Easily migrates or replicates your existing databases to Amazon RDS.
- It frees you to focus on your applications so you can give them the fast performance, high availability, security and compatibility they need.
Automated snap-shotting every 24 hours is, again something that I could just set up in minutes with a few clicks, though we also backup on cron jobs to elsewhere, and, because of our industry we have a HUGE "forensic logs" that initially live in the database but get archived off every seven days. (We literally log every single API call between our front-end and our application servers, and the data structures that the APIs return.