Item: Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

RDS is getting used for keeping the application data for multiple microservices. Amazon managed postgres RDS with multiple AZs for High availability. The integration with applications is quote easier with RDS as it provides a cluster endpoint to be used with services

Pros and Cons

Pros

Performance across multiple azs
Query Monitoring with performance insights
Maintaince is reduced as automatically done by amazon

Cons

RDS upgrade using blue green deployment can be made a bit easier. Prerequisites can be made more clearer

Return on Investment

Using reserved instances helped reducing the overall DB cost
Blue green deployment helped managing the postgres versions migrations

Usability

Due to the availablity of features like multi az and reas replicas, monitoring of RDS, autoscaling policies, easier deployment through IAC

Key Insights

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

Likelihood to Recommend

RDS is very well suited for relational data and having a large amount of data and wanted to run sql queries. RDS does provide good monitoring in case of long running queries or queries having locks

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