Item: Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Rating: 10
Author: KAUSHIK DEBNATH

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Hi,
As you might be aware Amazon Relational database service aka RDS in short has a couple of sets of database. I have been involved for SQL server, Mysql databses on RDS. This has helped as it provides pay-as-you go pricing tier from AWS cloud. Since the customer needed a viable database solution to be hosted on the cloud environment for a short duration, so it was much suitable for the customer to have it

Pros and Cons

database solution

if it could provide with smaller instances or any lightweight version
sometimes the auto-scaling option becomes headache for support team making it
non accessible for users

Return on Investment

positive outcome would be no OS patching
auto-scale up when faced load increase

Alternatives Considered

Azure SQL Database and Microsoft SQL Server

we could use Azure SQL for our project but as our other parts of the solutions existed on AWS, it was a better choice to have AWS RDS or else traffic exiting AWS would have taken a lot of cloud changes.
Microsoft SQL Server requires license, either core-based or full license which can be purchased one time but, AWS RDS solution became cheaper in this scenario as our project work needed the database for shorter duration

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

Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, SAP HANA Cloud

Likelihood to Recommend

well suited to host a database, if used for shorter duration.
Most suited for customer who do not want to bother about underlying hardware maintenance or OS-patching

Training Types Used

Online Training
No Training

In-Person Training

Online Training

the online training & digital content available on the web from AWS was having sufficient information to deploy and run the service

Ease of Amazon RDS Training

the product does not require to know much or learn to get started. As the underlying hardware is maintained by the cloud provider, its very simple to choose the database and its version and storage and instance size and some minor details & we were good to proceed launching the product

Amazon RDS service use experience & use case

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)