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Amazon RDS review
October 07, 2023

Amazon RDS review

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

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

In my organization we use Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for storing relational data which is used by our Internal teams for their workloads. In our current use case Amazon RDS addressed the problems of managing the Database, offer scalability and High availability on demand reducing the operational burden on the team.
  • Scalability - Provide on demand scaling with optimal performance
  • High availability and Disaster recovery - As a Financial organization we want to maximise our SLO and Amazon RDS helps us by providing HA and DR.
  • Global reach - As a globally distributed company we want our databases to replicate across regions and Amazon RDS manage that efficiently
  • Customization - You can't have a single instance, it will automatically comes with multiple AZ
  • Better Integration with other AWS services
  • Risk mitigation - Reduced risk of data loss and performance of the systems
  • Less operational burden on teams (Better scalability, HA and DR)
There are a lot of factor we took into consideration the most important ones are: Ease of use and setup - Compared to other similar options Amazon RDS is very easy to setup just clicking few options and its ready for POC and for production very easy and flexible Terraform code. Managed service - Amazon RDS greatly reduces the operational burden by taking care of the scalability, High availability and automated backups.

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

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Best suited - Web applications(when the application need a Scalable relational database with High availability and regional replication), Reporting - You can run SQL queries to create reports out of the data.


Less suited - For large scale unstructured data(Other NoSQL database will be more useful in terms of cost and performance), When you need very low latency in real time.