Item: Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Many teams, including mine, use Amazon RDS as an operational data store for applications. Amazon RDS is a great service that provides seamless setup, read replicas, intuitive scale-in and scale-out options, built-in monitoring, and much more.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy and simple setup.
Excellent support for cross region replication.
Enhanced security and access controls.
Multiple instance types based on the need.
Relatively less expensive.

Cons

It could do well to provide tools to update or create database table schemas easily.
Native support to postgres database could benefit.

Return on Investment

RDS has had a positive ROI. We transferred from Mongo to RDS and saved 80% of our cost.
Due to inbuilt monitoring, we never had database failures, leading to a 100% reduction in failures.

Usability

It's simple and intuitive to setup, establish connection and use it.

Alternatives Considered

MySQL

AWS RDS supports many engines and is more efficient than just MySQL.

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

Likelihood to Recommend

If your application needs a relational data store and uses other AWS services, AWS RDS is a no-brainer. It offers all the traditional database features, makes it a snap to set up, creates cross-region replication, has advanced security, built-in monitoring, and much more at a very good price. You can also set up streaming to a data lake using various other AWS services on your RDS.

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