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Quick and easy to start, low-touch database management solution with the risk of things getting complicated when anything complex is required
September 26, 2023

Quick and easy to start, low-touch database management solution with the risk of things getting complicated when anything complex is required

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

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

RDS helps us with the management of our database - setup, version upgrades, backups, optimization, configuration management and so on. It saves us a lot of time.
  • Easy spin-up of new database
  • Easy database version upgrade
  • Easy backups
  • Database user management
  • Database restoration from backup
  • Encryption-at-rest of existing database
  • Reserved Instances, as compared to EC2
  • Cost effective managed database solution
  • Reserved Instances are less optimized and flexible than EC2
  • Can suck DevOps man hours when more advanced situations happen, like a database restore or enabling encryption-at-rest
Also ElephantSQL. Not as cost effective, but more integrated into our cloud environment.

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

For a quick, dependable and fairly easy launch of a database instance, with a low-touch (or even almost no-touch) experience - it is just great.
For more advanced situations, it might be a limiting factor, e.g. smart backup and restore, user management, toggling on encryption-at-rest etc.