Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a cost-efficient relational database in the cloud.

Amazon RDS is built to enable simple set up, operation, and scaling; it offers fast performance, high availability, and security. It enables companies to focus on building apps instead of managing the underlying database infrastructure and services. Amazon RDS automates a lot of time-consuming management tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups.

Amazon RDS offers several database instance types optimized for different database needs, such as memory, performance, or I/O. It offers six different database engines: Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database, and SQL Server. AWS Database Migration Service enables the effortless migration of the existing database to Amazon RDS.

What Are The Benefits of Amazon RDS?

Cost

Amazon RDS offers many pricing options, such as on-demand, reserved instance, and others. Customers can choose between different payment models that best fit their needs.

Availability

As a part of Amazon Web Services, Amazon RDS runs on the highly reliable infrastructure as other AWS services. When provisioning the Multi-Availability Zone database instance, Amazon RDS replicates the data to an instance in a different Availability Zone.

Speed

Amazon RDS supports two options in terms of speed. The first one is the SSD-backed storage option optimized for high-performance applications; the second one is built for cost-effective general-purpose use. In terms of performance and cost, Amazon Aurora provides performance comparable with the commercial database at just 1/10th of the cost.

Simple Administration

Amazon RDS is simple to administer; there is no need for infrastructure provisioning, or installing and managing database software. Amazon RDS Management Console and AWS RDS Command-Line Interface enable us to go from project conception to production in a matter of minutes.

Security

Amazon RDS enables the isolation of database instances through the use of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). This feature enables us to connect to customers existing IT infrastructure through an industry-standard encrypted IPsec VPN. A lot of Amazon RDS engines offer encryption in transit and encryption at rest.

Scalability

Amazon RDS enables simple scaling of your database's compute and storage resources; it only requires few mouse clicks or an API call. The whole procedure can be done without any downtime. Many Amazon RDS engines allow the use of one or more Read Replicas; this functionality enables offloading read traffic from the primary database.

What Are the Best Use Cases for Amazon RDS?

Mobile and Online Games

Amazon RDS offers a high throughput and availability needed for mobile and online games. Game developers can focus on development instead of database management and monitoring.

Ecommerce Applications

Ecommerce apps require a flexible, secure, highly scalable, and low-cost database solution making them a good use case for Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS is an excellent choice for e-commerce companies that need to meet PCI compliance.

Web and Mobile Applications

Large scale web and mobile applications need a database with high throughput, massive storage scalability, and high availability. Amazon RDS fulfills all of these needs.

Conclusion

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a cost-efficient relational database in the cloud build for the demands of modern web and mobile applications. Amazon RDS is fully managed, enabling customers to focus on the development of their apps and services instead of managing and monitoring underlying database instances. Amazon RDS is build to be fast, highly available, secure, and simple while being cost-efficient. It supports all the major relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database, and SQL Server.

Sedmi odjel, as one of the leading managed service providers in the region, offers database management services based on Amazon RDS. We own the AWS compliance for Amazon Aurora, which makes us one of the companies recognized by AWS as experts in the field of MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. As an Amazon Consulting Partner with Amazon Aurora compliance, you can be sure that we understand the database needs of modern businesses and that we can tackle database problems of any scale.

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