Amazon RDS
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Menka T.
Verified UserInformation Technology and Services · 10000+ employees
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- Amazon RDS is easy to use
- It helps to maintain the relational database in the cloud
- Also it’s flexible and secure to use
- It has higher cost compared to other softwares
- And also we can only increase the allocated storage in Amazon RDS we can’t reduce it
Verified Professional
Publishing · 51-200 employees
Amazon RDS - the backbone of your AWS stack
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.
Aurora is a great port of mySQL - very compatible and super fast Prices are always going one direction: down Scalable way huge with just a few clicks Automated backups, patching, upgrades You can still do a lot of customization using PL/MYSQL The instances just stay up and running - becomes one less thing to worry about You have options: both mySQL and Postgres
- It's not amazingly easy to update the various variables that enable you to configure your mySQL instance
- I wish it was a bit easier to get monitoring that would give you more granular insight into what's causing issues
- You don't have quite as much flexibility and control over special packages you might install to do special stuff (calculating the Levenschtein distance between words, for example)
Switched From
Price, speed, ease of maintenance. We were tired of managing our own servers. RDS made keeping a top-notch database up and running MUCH easier for us.
Verified Professional
11-50 employees
Amazon RDS is really simple and lightweight.
11-50 employees
- Amazon RDS is really simple and lightweight
- It is easy to use and scale up in the cloud
- Easy to setup
I have not used Amazon Relational Database extensively, so I did not find any drawbacks forAmazon Relational Database
Verified Professional
Logistics and Supply Chain · 201-500 employees
Simplifies a lot of database management work
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.
I like how easy it is to scale RDS up and down alongside its monitoring features which can be conveniently accessed via AWS console
- The burst balance limit for the underlying EBS disk gave us lots of problems
- I wish this feature was more user-friendly
Switched From
In my previous companies, we used to self-host databases (postgres, MySQL/MariaDB) in VMs. This was more expensive in the long run in terms of time spent. We also used Google Cloud SQL for some projects but eventually switched to RDS since our main tech infra runs on AWS.
Why they chose it
"Our main tech infra runs on AWS already."
Verified Professional
Civic & Social Organization · 11-50 employees
Amazing relational database which is easy to setup and use provided you have the technical know how
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.
ease of setup ease of taking snapshots no configurational drainers very easy to set up alerts for monitoring problems in the database debugging is a breeze
- It is easy to get lost without an UI
- also replicating databases can get stuck sometimes if you don't know what you are doing
- replication can be pain depending upon whether you want (master-master) or (master-slaves)
Why they chose it
"GCP was sort of handing off sensitive data over to Google and flying blind. AWS RDS debugging is much more useful when a problem arises. aws was a no contest choice despite it's expenditure."
Verified Professional
Computer & Network Security · 11-50 employees
Dependable Database management solution
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.
- I is easy to integrate and implement also the customer support is quite good when one is having problems with any of their features
- Its also important to note that the backup and recovery are free if you turn on the automation feature
Auto backup is not automatically turned on so if one forgets to turn it on this might cause challenges in the long run, also i don't think its right even after paying for the solution upfront that one has to leave their financial information on the system
Why they chose it
"The solution felt less expensive compared to the others with more advanced features"
Sonpal Singh S.
Verified UserComputer Software · 11-50 employees
Easy To Setup & Super In Security & Data Management
I have a very good experience with AWS RDS system.
- You don't want to care about more configuration setup to run as we did in normal case
- A lot of configurable variable available in it to help the system working smooth
- You can change maximum setting at runtime
- easy to setup replication here, user & permission management is fast & secure
- No more cons except the price in compare to others only
Muhammad Aamer K.
Verified UserReal Estate · Self-Employed
Ámazon RDS is a great option if you need a remote database
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.
I like some of the things the most about amazon RDS no 1 obviously the pricing it is amazing you only get charged for your usage and then secondly the remote connection although it is not very easy but when you establish it like for example with your microsoft workbench then there is nothing better than Amazon RDS and then there is more good things for example this is very very secure and fast and reliable
The only thing i do not like about is it is very very hard if you are not a Database administrator this is probably harder for you maybe you need some extra exclusive study of it
Monish K.
Verified UserComputer Software · 1001-5000 employees
Cost Effective and Fully Cloud Managed Relational Database Service
Had A Really Great Experience with RDS, I have been evaluating Aurora with Native RDS so i will be talking more about Aurora in this Review
- RDS provides support for verity of database systems like mysql, postgreSql, Maria DB, Oracle, Microsoft Sql and a hybrid Aurora (supports both mysql & psql) Resizing, network management processes like subnet and security group are easily manageable
- Using Aurora it has become easy to transfer data from DB to S3 using "INTO OUTFILE S3" query Aurora is really faster when it comes to executing heavy flock of query simultaneously when compared with its native RDS, it increases the over all through put Aurora Server less is a extremely cost effective solution when used with proper configurations, it scales up and scales down as per its usage (pay per sec) Supports Auto Backing up and scheduled snapshotting which stores the DB snapshot in S3, which helps in recovery at times of data deleted by mistake or data corruption by some failure in the application etc Aurora provides Export Snapshot to S3 feature, its a additional feature towards data movement from RDS to S3, from this we can easily migrate data from RDS to Redshift or Athena via S3
Can't change subnet of a multi AZ RDS Database directly, to achieve this i had to first change my DB to single AZ Aurora Server less dose not scale up when used with low CPU utilising application, user should have given the flexibility to change the autoscaling parameter for Aurora server less (CPU utilisation 70%) Aurora the use of "INTO OUTFILE S3" query requires some additional setup steps at the s3 bucket end and IAM role which is well documented, but quite confusing, Aurora dose not support newer mysql or psql versions which are supported by its native RDS's Aurora when compared with its native RDS its slower for executing single queries, officers Aurora is really faster when it comes to executing heavy flock of query simultaneously, but at the least we expect Aurora to perform as the same level as its native RDS when it comes to single queries Aurora's Export Snapshot to S3 feature only supports Parquet file format, and on trigging Export it takes more time to start, it wold be better if the process starts instantaneously
Esra K.
Verified UserInformation Technology and Services · 51-200 employees
Best managed relational database service in the market!
Choosing RDS was the best strategic decision we made. We saved a lot of time to focus on our company's growth instead of dealing with operations.
- We have been using AWS RDS with MySQL since 2015
- It is the best option we encountered in the market to set up, operate and scale a relational database in the cloud
- Management Console is really easy to use
- You can create, restore and scale any size of database in a matter of minutes
- You should however be familiar with the technical term AWS uses
- Be careful when you choose between General Purpose and Provisioned IOPS types
- Multi-AZ feature is a life saver if you have a database that cannot tolerate any downtime
- Point in time recovery saved us a lot
- Also RDS takes automatic backups regularly
- You should also try Amazon Aurora which is an engine compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL
- AWS built Aurora for itself and the underlying technology is mind blowing
- You should be careful with the price of Amazon RDS and keep an eye on CloudWatch and Trusted Advisor
- It gets expensive depending on usage but still it is worth not to struggle with operational problems
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