Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) - a game changer!
September 22, 2023

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) - a game changer!

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

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is simple to setup and makes scaling database in cloud a very easy task during high load scenarios. It supports backup and recovery. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) offers identity management that ensures people with assigned roles can only access the data. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) ensures availability of the workloads at all times and hence suited for production. It offers third party integrations also.
  • Auto Scalability
  • Security
  • Automatic backup
  • Downtime can be reduced whenever scaling operation is done
  • In my opinion, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is costly
  • I think improvements to monitoring and logs is a must
  • Lower time spent for manual administration
  • Restore database to a point
  • Monitor and troubleshoot efficiently
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) offers sql server version compatibility for earlier versions, but azure provides only for the latest version. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) offers higher storage for each database instance. I think Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is easier to use and setup. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) offers better migration capabilities.

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

I think Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is suited for running production loads since it is highly available and can be auto scaled. With few clicks a fully managed database is spun up and hence setup is very easy. It offers AWS management console, RDS api calls and the command line interface for interacting with the data.