Item: Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Rating: 7
Author: Sathish kumar Saminathan

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

To migrate the database in SQL server onpremise to Cloud on RDS SQL Server Server

Pros and Cons

Setup of the server with default config
HA and DR setup automatically
creation of server through terraform scripts without any manual install of required softwares

RDS has some restricted access to some features like access to local path in server

Return on Investment

Provision of server is quick with new Databases

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

AWS was selected by the customer so we moved to RDS for some Db's where its compatible to make is more maintenance friendly

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

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

Yes

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

Yes

It is well suited a new application developed with latest technology on microservices pattern which requires HA RDMS Database. RDS is not suited for Applications which was created long back and have some legacy dependency on the RDBMS servers.

RDS is wonderful with RDMS features

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)