AWS RDS: Amazon’s Fully Managed Relational Database

Amazon Relational Database Service is a fully managed cloud based database subsystem that fits the process of configuring, maintaining and scaling relational databases in a cloud environment. Rather than stressing over activities such as installing the database application, performing backups and tuning performance, AWS does a majority of that work for its users.

RDS has easy and frequent setup, operating and scaling so the user can use all of the following database engines:

• Amazon Aurora
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• MariaDB
• Oracle
• Microsoft SQL Server

Building and managing a database on your servers is a tedious work and RDS helps resolve these issues by helping businesses by:

1. Automating Maintenance Tasks

• Install updates and patches whenever required without worrying about work and complexity for AWS to take care of it.
• Automated backups ensure you will not lose critical information.

2. Scaling The System Effortlessly

• If your application grows, you can increase quota and spending power without worrying about a downtime.
• Caches read from slaves and thus improves performance and increases responsiveness.

3. High Availability And Reliability

• RDS uses multi-region deployment where in case of one data center failure, the backup automatic switchover to another data is made. This results in RDS having availability all the time.
• To avoid the loss of revenue and business opportunities, failures are dealt instantly with failover.

4. Security & Compliance

• Data encryption at rest and in transit.
• AWS Identity and access management (IAM) assists with your database security controls.

5. Cost-Effective

• You are only charged for resources that you consume, whether on an on-demand pricing model or paying up front for added discounts on longer terms.

1. Select the database engine of choice such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
2. The AWS deploys and provisions the database on their cloud servers on your behalf.
3. Now, you are able to use standard database connection tools to link your application to RDS.
4. Tasks such as patching, scaling, backups and monitoring are done automatically by AWS.

• Startups & Small Businesses: Eliminates the need for a full time database administrator.
• Enterprise Applications: Best for large scale applications due to the robust availability and security.
• Developers & DevOps Teams: Spend less time on database management and more time on application development.

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