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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Review General
Updated October 05, 2023

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Review General

Mukhtar Ahmad Ganayee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

We have Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and is used for application level data access for custom applications
  • Hardware
  • Backups
  • Storage Allocation
  • Access limitation
  • Backup options
  • Cost
  • Broader application support
  • Performance improvements
  • lower cost
Hardware difference compared with Normal Database on physical servers

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?

No

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?

No

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

Yes

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon CloudWatch
I think compared to RAC environments for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) works well in limited Hardware . good for small size dbs and applications . Storage usage and process of adding storage . In my opinion, not good for bigger applications. I think patching Needs improvements and is not best suitable in case of high available applications.

Using Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

200 - Application users and developers from multiple teams
15 - Multi Flavor Database Administration
AWS RDS administrator
Gitlab
Terraform
S3
Lamda
Monitoring tool usage
  • Oracle RDS
  • PostgreSQL
  • Sql Server
  • Migrated larger databases with RAC clusters into RDS
  • Create database like postgreSQL in short time
  • Short time POC Databases
  • RDS Custom
  • ERP Application Databases
  • Covert to low cost Databases using AWS tools and RDS
Database Hardware is minimal and we have all applications running on AWS

Evaluating Amazon RDS and Competitors

Yes - phyiscal servers
  • Cloud Solutions
  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
cost
cost storage capability and integration with other applications.