RDS to the rescue
September 22, 2023

RDS to the rescue

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

We use RDS to back majority of our transactional data for our insurance sales platform. It enables easier maintenance by our operations team compared to an on prem instance from provisioning new instances to configuration changes to our ability to scale and support backs and DR.
  • Monitoring
  • Configuration
  • Provisioning
  • Detailed monitoring and config of underlying database internal configs
  • Resource connection pooling specifics
  • Auto scaling
  • Better IT staff productivity
  • Support DR - multi region risk mitigation
Manageability was most important to us while not sacrificing on performance.

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

Suited for highly normalized data and retrieval. If you're looking to just pull records by keys with frequent lookups at high speed and scale more cost effectively no sql is better option like mongodb. If look for temporal data management time series db is ideal