Amazon RDS Features & Capabilities

Amazon RDS

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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. Users can manage routine database tasks like patching and provisioning, and more.

Access Controls/Permissions

Alerts/Notifications

Automatic Backup

Backup and Recovery

Data Capture and Transfer

Data Dictionary Management

Data Migration

Data Replication

Data Retrieval

Data Storage Management

Data Virtualization

Mobile Access

Monitoring

Multiple Programming Languages Supported

Multitenancy

Performance Analysis

Performance Monitoring

Relational Database Management

User Management

Oracle Database

MySQL

PostgreSQL

DBeaver

Amazon Aurora

MongoDB

I am using it as a MySQL server. With a managed database server, almost everything can be configured by just operating the configuration screen, so it is recommended that even members with little knowledge of MySQL can create a high availability database infrastructure, such as creating a Master-Slave configuration.  It was possible to significantly reduce the man-hours required to install and configure the DB supports in EC2 and the upgrade procedure for maintenance, and dedicate the man-hours to other design and construction work. Including a BD license, it has freed us from license management. In addition, by not needing a physical space, we are freed from the whole flow of purchasing it.

High availability even for database beginners

We use Amazon RDS to manage our key production/transactional databases for our customer-facing applications as well as our development environment, internal ERP, etc.

We definitely gain value and efficiency from not having to deal with the management of yet another server - and its operating system, patches, uptime, etc. - it is a real boon to simply have a database-as-a-service that we spin up, connect to, and work with, letting AWS deal with all the management.

High quality, bulletproof managed database service

Easy to setup. Very expensive. Play great with other AWS services. 
The main issue is that metrics collected  manually will never meet AWS metrics which are used to bill your stack. And of course AWS point of view will be much costly. Their Enterprise Support can not understand why metrics extracted from DB itself do not meet billing metrics and will endlessly redirect you to yet another expert. 


Will cost you all yourmoney.

Waaaay back in the day, we owned and managed huge machines on which we ran our database software.  It was Oracle for a while, then we moved to mySQL.  But the machine and the software were our problem to handle.  Most of the time (because these are not new technologies), there were no problems.  But when there were problems, there were huge problems. Because like many websites/apps, data is at the core of what we do.  No database, and everything goes poof.  Since switching to RDS, this has become a thing of the past.  We tell RDS what kind of beefy setup we want, and they do the rest.  The mySQL patching.  The upgrades.  If we want to move to a bigger instance, that's pretty straightforward, too.  Database hosting at pretty large scale, with just a few clicks.  And no machines to worry about.  You get decent (but not amazing) visibility into the instance at any time.  But, basically, what you really get is peace of mind, not having to worry that your system's most critical layer will flake out on you.  That's worth a lot.  Also: AWS's Aurora is a very nice port of mySQL.  We've had no issues there either.  

Amazon RDS - the backbone of your AWS stack

Overall, Amazon RDS has been very useful to us. It has saved us tremendous amounts of time just in the provisioning, scaling, and maintenance activities alone.

Simplifies a lot of database management work

AWS RDS can be linked with Victorops/splunk/slack and what not to constantly monitor the state of the database and set up alerts for catching problems.  It can automatically save regular copies of the database.

Amazing relational database which is easy to setup and use provided you have the technical know how

Overall it has amazing control features and i have never experienced any kind of downtime with them, they also have very enhanced security features so data birch is out of the question.

Dependable Database management solution 

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Amazon RDS is very useful for anyone who wants to maintain a relational database in order to use resources on demand, since it is a cloud service. The system has a configuration and management interface that demands very little cognitive load for its use, providing several resources to access it.

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Since we start using RDS it saves us a lot of time. You can start with a small instance and very easily grow to a larger instance and a multi AZ (High available) setup. No need to worry about disk space anymore for backups or snapshots. Amazon doesn't run out of space. You can setup automated backup with a retention of 35 days max but if you need to keep backups longer you can create manual snapshots and keep them forever.

Setting up a "serversless" database environment inminutes

Overall very satisfied. It worked for our use case. 

Amazon RDS - Keeping it simple & easy

As most AWS services, it is super useful when your business is in a phase where you need more services and less time to manage them. If you can pay for the maintenance maybe you prefer to optimize your setup managing it by yourself.

Forget about management!

We use RDS with MySQL and PostgreSQL as primary database for my Applications which deploys in EC2 and ECS, AWS IAM and VPC are used to limit access to RDS only from the backed Component and do not expose RDS to publish. we reply on AWS on backup, snapshot and database patch.

A simple setting up relational database in the cloud

Used Amazon RDS on multiple applications the scalability of the RDS really helped in load intensive tasks and the easy backup provided by the tool helped in many cases when data was corrupted due to human errors.

Amazon RDS all database services and no management worries.

Very good. Started using it when we were a small startup and it allowed us to easily scale to a full grown portal.

Database service that allows you to scale easily and quickly

No need of building own infrastucture, use RDS and save time ,money. Rapid development

Amazon Web Services are the Best!

Amazon is changing the way we do things and how our database reaches others. It's only a matter of time before our entire infrastructure is on the cloud. 

Easy way to put DB in the cloud

My experience with Amazon RDS was great because i could easily establish remote connection to it. It was fast the data retrieval was fast, it is reliable and it is not expansive for what it is providing.

Ámazon RDS is a great option if you need a remote database

Our primary datastores are kept encrypted and secure in RDS, and scale out to several areas without a hitch.

RDS Makes Life Easy

Robust managed database solution

My team uses Amazon RDS to host an SQL database for machine learning applications that receives live updates. The server has proven reliable both for testing and development where we used different packages/clients to connect as well as in production.

As we may deal with personal information the access control was very important for us and the ability to have multi-factor authentication as a base service rather than a premium service was a deciding factor while choosing this product.

Reliable service that encompasses your needs; safety included

I have a very good experience with AWS RDS system.

Easy To Setup & Super In Security & Data Management

Overall Amazon RDS is a pretty good solution, but it does come with its own problems like pricing and performance especially when compared to opensource NoSql solutions

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