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Fully Managed RDS (Relational Database Service) by AWS
Updated February 24, 2024

Fully Managed RDS (Relational Database Service) by AWS

Aman Makwana | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

As a Relational Database Service we have used AWS RDS because as a Banking and Fintech organisation we are dealing with millions of customer and as AWS provides this Managed service which is fully fledged with lots of feature like High Availability, Fault Tolerance, Security measures, In Depth Monitoring, Resilency, Query Suggestions and Very High Performance. Moreover this all set of features are available as one click solutions so we don't have a external headache to manage the Database we just have to focus on our Application.
  • Multi AZ, EC2 secure instance connect, Read and Write replicas
  • Storage and Database autoscaling is achieved by just one click so that our DB performance is not impacted due to huge number of users
  • In depth monitoring of Database and Database Queries and also the suggestions to improvise the same.
  • Automated and Manual Backup process that reduces our time to setup the Database Backup process
  • Faster DB provisioning speed
  • No room for improvement as of now
  • Improved Database Admin tasks like Setup of Backup, Disaster Recovery
  • Reduced Downtime due to featured like Multi AZ, Read Replicas, Proxy
  • Improved Security by features like EC2 instance connect to access DB securely
  • User Experience improved due to Read/Write Query improvements followed by suggestions from Enhanced and Performance monitorings
Because we have our whole architecure on AWS cloud so to provide close connectivity we have choose AWS RDS and also due to Features offered by AWS RDS.

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

MongoDB Atlas, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), HashiCorp Vault
You can use AWS RDS when you are specifically on cloud and also you don't want a headache to Setup the Database Availability, Security, Resilency, Monitoring by using RDS you can get all this feature on just one click ( Note: As per the feature you enable it can have add on charges based on that).

If you are a Startup owner and you want to get started with AWS RDS it also provides the Free tier quota where you can get started on RDS and also by applying to AWS startup events you can get Additional Cloud credits.