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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.

Amazon RDS

Web-based

Lead Analyst

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

Senior Software Engineer

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.

Tech Support

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

Senior Software Developer

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

Founder

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.

Software Engineer

Supports lots of Amazon cloud service options and third-party programs and APIs. Strong emphasis on securing server instances.

Amazon RDS has worked really well for us for our cloud DB solution. It's pretty intuitive and easy to use, and you can choose exactly what instances sizes, storage sizes, etc. you want.

Easy to create, configure and manage relational databases through the web console. Integration with our application is seamless.

The greatest feature of Amazon RDS like other aws services is auto-scaling and automatically backups. It takes away the burden of having to monitor the databases for performance.

Software Developer

The pricing is good and even a person starting out his website or server can use this to maintain 100% uptime of his database.

RDS in particular is quite easy to set up (at least in the basics) and it is very fast and reliable.

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.

Principal software engineer

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.

Senior Application Developer

If someone is building their software and does not want to manage their DB and not concerned about how it is getting managed then this is the best option in market.

Programmer

Great technical support. You almost don't need to mind at any configuration or database servers anymore.

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.

My overall experience with Amazon RDS has nothing but been amazing with the great customer support that they offer and consideration they provide for minor mistakes performed at our end.

No complex configuration needed, all security and control access is mostly already handled.

Microsoft SQL Server

MariaDB

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

Its can be scaled a push of button. So i prefer this. 

Amazon RDS how is useful

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

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.

My company need a simple and fast scalable solution for managing MySQL databases therefore we chose RDS. Prior to RDS we were managing DB clusters installed on VMs on Hyper Visors, and it was a cumbersome job. Though switching to RDS does make our life easy  but RDS is not a cheap solution though.


AWS RDS Review

Scale it with Amazon Rds! 

My experience with Amazon RDS was a solid one. It allowed me to remote connect which is an added plus.  It was secure, fast and stable for our needs. We just did not stay with it due to pricing.

It was not for us.

Well performing database

RDS is a really good service, I haven't seen any Downtime, the communication between EC2 and RDS is really fast since they are in the same AWS network

Database Management as a Service is well implemented, which is reliable, secure and efficient

My Overall experience with AWS RDS is amazing I will continue to use it ever after if it stays and upgrade with new features.

AWS RDS for everything.

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

Quick and repeatable deployments, wide range of DB flavors, fully managed and supported by AWS.

Super simple managed database solution

Watch out for billing surprises

I've been using AWS since 2015 and to be fair, it has only improved all this time. Being RDS one of the most commonly used services, I have plenty of experience with it (including the support team behind it) and I only have good things to say about it.

Best "cloud" rDB implementation so far

Peace of mind if it's about database administration, backup and availability.

Easiest database management there is

Amazon RDS is very reliable and easy to use it support various types of databases including widely used MySQL and others like Postgres, aurora without worrying the infrastructure.  
IT is very easy to migrate from existing or new database also it has helped us to avoid downtime with Multi-AZ setup.


Amazon RDS : High uptime and faster processing in-cloud database management

I use RDS every day across a number of products. It's always been my go-to for a managed database service. 

RDS for Distributed Services

RDS is awsome!

Compared to EC2 deployed database I prefer RDS for its absolute stability

I use RDS for my Mysql deployment on amazon and it works 100% uptime with no failure rates

Using RDS has been great. Before we rolled our own MySQL servers and actually was bottlenecked by them in a big release. RDS opened the pipes and helped us support a lot of connections. It’s also 10x easier to manage. 

Fantastic Managed Databases

Very positive. We've never had any downtime and our database is reliable and performs well.

Brilliant database service with scalability

We have created MySQL instance in RDS and have been using it for 2 years via My SQL, and it had been a smooth and amazing experience in terms of data backup and the service provided by RDS.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Amazon RDS User Review

Justin:                                                Hi, I'm Justin, DevOps engineer, and I give AWS RDS five out of five stars. For more reviews like these, please click the link below. Before using RDS, we had used conventionally managed on-premise databases like Marie DB and PostgreSQL SQL. They definitely worked, but the problem is we don't have a database expert on our team. We wanted to minimize some of the maintenance associated with using databases while still having the flexibility to scale on demand to meet our growing needs. And RDS provides a much better way of doing that than trying to manage everything ourselves.
                                                       We chose RDS for a couple of reasons. First of which being, we are already heavily invested in the AWS ecosystem. We figured, hey, we'll go ahead and give this a shot and see if it's any good. The upside is it definitely is. RDS takes the most complicated parts of database management and abstracts them away so that we don't have to worry about that. It was fairly simple. It probably took me maybe half an hour to get it demo instance going, to get it set up and to test it out. It was very, very easy to get started with.
                                                       The hardest part of migration and onboarding wasn't really anything to do with RDS itself specifically. It was just simply a process of migrating all of our data from on-premise over to RDS, but we already had tools to do that. And so it wasn't really any different than copying as any other database. If you're thinking about using RDS, you may look at the value proposition and think, well, we can run this in RDS, or we can run this on premises and save a lot of money. That's definitely true, but I would also say consider the cost savings in time of having to manage everything yourself, having to scale everything yourself, having to patch everything yourself. For us, it came out to a definite net positive.

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