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Amazon RDS

Relational database service software

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Amazon RDS - 2025 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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What is Amazon RDS?

Amazon RDS is a relational database service software designed to help users set up, operate and scale databases such as Amazon Aurora, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL in the cloud. With Amazon RDS, users can manage routine database tasks like patching, provisioning, backups, failure detection, recovery, and repair.

Amazon RDS enables users to launch database instances and connect applications quickly and easily. The platform supports automatic software patching, and offers best practice guidance through configuration analysis and usage metrics. Amazon RDS provides recommendations for areas like database engine versions, storage, networking, instance types, and storage. Users can search and perform recommended actions instantly, or schedule them for later.

Amazon RDS facilitates general purpose (SSD) and provisioned IOPS (SSD) storage, as well as push-button compute scaling, storage scaling, and read replicas. Other Amazon RDS features include automated backups, database snapshots, multi-AZ deployments, and automatic host replacement. The platform ensures database security with at rest and in transit encryption, network isolation, and resource-level permissions. Amazon RDS also supports event notifications, monitoring and metrics, and configuration governance.

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Amazon RDS's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Amazon RDS users:

Backup and Recovery

4.6

(43)

Data Storage Management

4.5

(43)

Access Controls/Permissions

4.3

(42)

Performance Analysis

4.3

(30)

Data Replication

4.2

(34)

Multiple Programming Languages Supported

4.4

(32)

All Amazon RDS features

Features rating:

4.6

(211)

Automatic Backup

4.7

(3)

Monitoring

4.4

(7)

Relational Database Management

4.4

(5)

Alerts/Notifications

4.6

(16)

Data Retrieval

4.7

(6)

Data Migration

4.0

(27)

Performance Monitoring

4.4

(8)

Data Dictionary Management

4.1

(13)

Data Virtualization

4.1

(12)

Mobile Access

3.7

(6)

User Management

4.0

(6)

Data Capture and Transfer

4.0

(1)

Multitenancy

4.0

(4)

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Customer Support

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Amazon RDS pricing

Value for money:

4.3

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Per Feature

Pricing details

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Amazon RDS integrations (50)

Integrations rated by users

We looked through 211 user reviews, to identify which products are mentioned as Amazon RDS integrations, and what is the users perception.

Amazon EC2

Integration rating: 4.8 (6)

“It is easy to operate because it is easy to configure the connection design with EC2 and there is no need to keep an eye on the area expansion.”

Ana Alvarado

Security Architecture Discipline leader

Amazon Aurora

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

“Aurora is an awesome alternative to RDS - you don't have to think about your databases in terms of hardware at all. Both have worked very well for us.”

Anonymous Reviewer

Director, Internet Strategy

MySQL

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

Amazon RDS support options

Typical customers

Freelancers

Small businesses

Mid size businesses

Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web

Android

iPhone/iPad

Support options

Email/Help Desk

Chat

Training options

Webinars

Documentation

Live Online

Amazon RDS reviews

Overall rating

4.7

211

Positive reviews

Rating breakdown

Value for money
Ease of use
Features
Customer support
Likelihood to recommend8.75/10

Rating distribution

155

Pros

This is a great way to use a relational DBMS without managing it , it is a great experience using this service.

Mahesh K.

Lead Analyst

The security management is really good, we can set all types of security managements like, subnet, security group, VPC, IAM role etc, which will take a lot of effort if gone manually.

MANAS M.

Senior Software Engineer

What I like about RDS is the variety of database options from both a hardware and software standpoint. In addition, it's easy to have a database stood up within 10 to 15 minutes.

Christopher S.

Founder

Cons

Not much that I can provide as dislike for this server.

Mike I.

Tech Support

Since it's not a self-hosted service, there are some low level features that are missing.

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It's very hard to get started. UI is extremely bloated and near impossible to navigate if you don't know what you're looking for.