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Flexible Cloud Based Databases
September 22, 2023

Flexible Cloud Based Databases

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

We have many uses for RDS in our organisation. My particular current use case is to hold a copy of an operational system's database for reporting purposes
  • ease of setup & management
  • easy to scale up/down
  • monitoring
  • ability to leave an RDS off for more than 7 days
  • Easy of provisioning and use means lower TCO
  • Easy of scalability means a more adaptive environment
We needed to use PostgreSQL due to it being the database engine that our application vendor uses. Once we were constrained on the database engine choice then Microsoft products (eg. SQL Server), whether on premise or in the cloud, were not appropriate. Therefore the only choice was using Amazon RDS or PostgreSQL on premise. We favour cloud based solutions so therefore used Amazon 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

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RDS is an excellent cloud based managed database platform that has all the features you would expect from a major cloud provider. It is well accepted in the community for any use case where a relational database is required. It supports a wide variety of database engines to choose from.