Amazon RDS Erfahrungen

We're using Amazon RDS PostgreSQL.

Our database use case is pretty trivial, so we're entirely satisfied with RDS experience.

Database is fast and efficient, very easy to scale by changing instance types, adding more disk I/O, or spinning up read replicas. Backups do not have significant performance penalty.

With some careful planning it is very easy to migrate between different software versions.

Reserved instances make it a very compelling offering.

It gets expensive, but if you consider the fact that you don't need to deal with many daily operational issue, it's well worth the price.

You can only add storage capacity (no storage downsizing possible without a complex migration process).

Its saves time of their employees, productivity increased and cost of data management is reduced

Their cost is high, because they make monopoly and less competitive.

Amazon has worked hard to democratises databases, it's easy to set up a variety of different type of databases: SQL, Oracle, MySQL etc and perform things that typically have been a little more complicated with just a few clicks for example snapshots and database mirrors for you analytical platform.

Choose the region in which you're seeking to operate with just a few clicks, and it's pretty easy to kick off auto-scaling etc.

You need to be careful with billing surprises, make sure that you're familiar with Cloudwatch before you start playing with RDS.

Keep an eye on how much it's costing you.

Amazon may be elastic, but your budget probably lacks the same amount of elasticity.

It has met all our requirements regarding costs and storage. We observed no downtimes. Once set up, we did not have to manage it at all. Really enjoyed the backup functionality.

Deployment was quite hard as for most of AWS infrastructure, but once you get over initial struggles it becomes relatively easy

It caters to all types of requirements in terms of size, it can handle any amount of data
The pricing is good and even a person starting out his website or server can use this to maintain 100% uptime of his database.
You can control a lot of things from the Control Panel of AWS which include monitoring CPU usage, number of connections. It provides easy rebooting as well.

There was nothing that I did not like about this software. I am still using it and it solves my use case perfectly.

Amazon is getting good at putting DB in the cloud that before you know it, it will be as easy and syncing data to another computer.
Amazon is in the right track and not for long other companies will follow and make their disaster recovery simple to do.

Amazon still has a long way to go to make every database work seamless, but they have the right idea and concepts and it will only be a matter of time.
The pricing is something to get use to until it goes down and the demand get larger.

Amazon RDS allows creating DB instances in a very few clicks with full customization like engine type, size of class required, connectivity, availability, and durability.
Also, all monitoring, eventing, and logs are very handy and displayed on the pictorial representation dashboard.

Honestly, Amazon RDS fulfills all the use cases for me and I haven't spotted any disadvantage in it.

- Great stability and performance
- Great technical support
- You almost don't need to mind at any configuration or database servers anymore

Maybe the costs, but it depends. For small databases the RDS may not be a good idea but for large ones, you'll probably spend less than maintaining you own infrastructure

Amazon RDS provides the capability to host whichever database server customer wants, providing options like MS SQL , PostgreSQL, and have its own in house Aurora DB.With the Host and user/password simplified model like any other database it allows users who are not familiar with cloud to use it similarly.I have used Amazon RDS with all kind of databases and the way it optimizes costs and provides integration to logs is amazing.

Log and monitoring on the console could be improved and enhanced heavily

Backed by AWS - corporate level product for an affordable price.

No support included. Need to figure out your issues on your own or pay (extensively) for support.

AWS is the reason, amazon is giant today and RDS is one of the most used services on AWS.
No need of maintaining own infrastructure, server, backup plans. Use RDS, they have everything ready for you, create RDS instances , as much as you required, scale if you need more resources, use RDS backup
plans to backup all your data and retrieve whenever required. with 99.999% availability and highly secured features, your application development will be much better.

security features need to be taken care seriously

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.

With Amazon RDS, you longer need to install, set up and manage your database system. Just Choose suitable Database system, choose suitable instance type, configure a few things, and you database will be ready. You do not need to install or set up anything, amazon will take care of these things. You can straight away starting your database.

You will be charged a hefty amount for its services by Amazon.

Amazon RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) is a very powerful Service hosted by AWS. It's very easy to Setup and Run complex Database Instances. You can choose between Amazon Aurora (AWS own database System), PostgrSQÖ, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle and MSSQL Server. It's very easy to Setup Things like Data Replication or Scale the DB up or down.

if u are using MSSQL Server you are only able to work with the database engine - SSAS is not available (which makes sense in the context of working wih a database but it might me a stumbling Stone)

The managed nature of the hosting takes a lot of workload off of my team, letting us focus on more important things. It's definitely worth it.

Making changes is always a bit scary, especially with respect to reboots. They also take a long time with no clear progress indication.

Managing a database can be very tedious, with lots of configuration management. RDS does the heavy lifting and makes database management easy and scalable.

My biggest complaint about RDS is that I did not find it sooner. It has saved countless hours of labour.