Item: Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Rating: 8
Author: Sunny Hemnani

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

1. We are providing product management services and using RDS as a database for them 2. The benefit is that AWS manages the database instances, and we don't have to keep separate servers for them. 3. Helps us keep database backups and images of those schemas very efficiently. 4. The dashboard shows the running load & queries on the database.

Pros and Cons

Supports many types of databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aurora, etc.
RDS console makes it very easy to maintain all the different instances of relational database services.
Provides performance insights for all the database instances.

Cost is very high as compared to other cloud service providers.
Snapshots are also very expensive to maintain.

Return on Investment

With RDS, our product has grown from a few customers to hundreds of customers using our platform every day.

Alternatives Considered

Oracle Database Cloud Service

It's very easy to maintain & deploy Amazon RDS instances as compared to other cloud providers.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, AWS Secrets Manager

Likelihood to Recommend

When your application is hosted on the Amazon Web Services cloud & we need a managed database, Amazon RDS is the go-to solution for such a scenario. When there are budget restrictions, Amazon RDS is not cheap & difficult to scale at a low budget.

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Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)