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Amazon RDS Reviews - Page 7
211 reviews
Recommended
Jamie H.
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Gold standard in SaaS/IaaS database services. Handles many tasks and configuration options for you. Amazon Aurora is a great, fast and reliable database service available in RDS. Integrates well with other AWS services.
Ties one in to the AWS platform, particularly if you start using some of the best features like Aurora. The AWS console is not user-friendly. Can get quite expensive, but probably still cheaper than hiring highly-skilled people to manage your databases for you.
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Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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I liked the onboarding process when establishing a new environment. Rather than go very deep into database nomenclature and Amazon lingo, the questions were relatively simple on the level of "how big would you expect your db to be" and "what sort of expected availability do you want in your db." This made it easy to try out things without immediately going to the Amazon documentation for something you don't understand because they were written in the AWS jargon.
Even small instances took some time to set up and destroy. Also, I didn't get too far into it at the beginning to explore myself, but I would have liked to see options for scaling and duplicating environments + data from specific tables rather than doing data copying/migrations by hand after setting up a new environment. Perhaps they have added this in since I last used it since they update RDS quite often.