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RDS is great for your company
Updated September 15, 2023

RDS is great for your company

Diego Turcios Lara | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Instead of having our database servers in house, we decided to use the cloud for managing the servers. Our costs have come down with this and it's so easy to spin up a new database instance. Besides this, as we use several AWS technology we can control it with other services such as CloudWatch or Lambda.
  • Easy to use.
  • Not expensive.
  • Flexible.
  • Parameter groups are sometimes confusing at the moment of editing.
  • Just supports certain amount of databases.
  • Positive impact.
  • Billing is controlled for about 30 databases we used.
We try to use Azure Databases, but we encountered issues of combining services between AWS and Azure, so this is the main reason we decided to move with Amazon RDS. I can say that between services they're quite alike but it all depends what cloud provider you use for the other services.

Do you think Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) again?

Yes

I definitely can recommend RDS to my colleagues, it has helped us a lot to solve issues. We don't have to worry about networking configuration as doing this with Amazon Relational Database Service is fast, easy and secure. We can create instances in a few steps, we have an API that allows us to do via code, not only in the console.

Amazon RDS Support

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.