Safeguarding Data and Ensuring Availability: Amazon RDS is Best
September 25, 2023

Safeguarding Data and Ensuring Availability: Amazon RDS is Best

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

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Adding read replicas or growing our database laterally (by adding instances) or vertically (by increasing instance size) is simple with RDS. This adaptability guarantees that our database can manage rising workloads. RDS offers daily automated backups and lets our specify retention times. Providing choices for data recovery, we can restore our database to any point throughout the retention term.
  • Monitoring and Alerts
  • Good in terms of compatibility
  • High availability configuration
  • Automated Backups
  • Vendor-specific features and configurations
  • AWS RDS can become little expensive
  • Storage limitations
  • RDS enhances data security and compliance, quantify the potential cost savings from reduced security incidents or compliance fines.
  • RDS leads to improved uptime, reduced downtime, or better application performance, quantify the potential revenue gains or cost savings.
  • Good security features
Installing, configuring, and managing Oracle Database can be challenging, especially for people who are new to Oracle products. Longer learning curves and higher operational overhead can be caused by this complexity. Amazon Relational Database Service is easy to understand and easy to use.

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

Many administrative duties related to database maintenance, including backups, patching, and monitoring, are handled by AWS. As a result, our team concentrate on application development rather than database upkeep. RDS is appropriate for a variety of applications since it supports a number of database engines, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MariaDB.