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Amazon RDS mindshare

As of June 2025, the mindshare of Amazon RDS in the Database as a Service (DBaaS) category stands at 24.0%, down from 27.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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CategoryDatabase as a Service (DBaaS)Jun 11, 2025Download
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Top industries

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Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
14%
University
6%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Healthcare Company
6%
Educational Organization
5%
Retailer
5%
Comms Service Provider
5%
Insurance Company
4%
Government
3%
Energy/Utilities Company
3%
Legal Firm
3%
Real Estate/Law Firm
3%
Media Company
3%
Hospitality Company
3%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
2%
Construction Company
2%
Non Profit
2%
Outsourcing Company
2%
Consumer Goods Company
1%
Transportation Company
1%
Performing Arts
1%
Wholesaler/Distributor
1%
Aerospace/Defense Firm
1%
Logistics Company
1%
Recruiting/Hr Firm
1%
Engineering Company
1%
Marketing Services Firm
1%
Pharma/Biotech Company
1%
 

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Samuel Ebite - PeerSpot user
AICE Graduate at alx_africa
Verified user of Amazon RDS
Nov 20, 2024
Ensure high availability with robust encryption and seamless backups

Pros

"Amazon RDS provides data encryption using services like KMS, crucial for securing high-sensitive data and meeting compliance requirements such as HIPAA or PCI DSS. "

Cons

"For improvements, Amazon RDS could work on more features for multi-availability zone deployment to enhance higher availability, and on simplifying migration for those transitioning from on-premises to cloud environments."
VinodKumar9 - PeerSpot user
Lead Developer at aimleap
Verified user of Amazon RDS
Jun 4, 2025
Support improves workflow and ease of integration facilitates efficient project management

Pros

"Based on my experience, I would rate this solution a nine out of ten."

Cons

"The backup and restore processes take more time compared to other providers. For instance, if DigitalOcean takes two minutes to restore or create a backup, AWS will take 2 to 3 minutes."
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AWS Architect at Virtual University
Verified user of Amazon RDS
Jun 4, 2025
Customer support and automated backups offer reliability while ease of deployment enhances user experience

Pros

"The impact of Amazon RDS scalability and backup has been positive, with good vertical scaling, scale up and down, horizontal scaling, and storage scaling."

Cons

"User interface needs improvement for using IPS and CloudWatch to scale and utilize read replicas, enabling performance insights to view query formats where the bottlenecks occur, identifying the fixes, slow queries, and missing indexes, improving the security and monitoring with alerts."
VU
Sr. Lead - Engineering at GlobalLogic
Verified user of Amazon RDS
Aug 4, 2024
Fully managed database and fairly easy to scale disaster recovery

Pros

"It's a fully managed database, so that makes our life easier from the operational standpoint. That is the key, basically."

Cons

"There are some use cases that might come up where we would want to understand the performance aspects better."
PeerSpot user
VP engineering at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Amazon RDS
Mar 2, 2025
Managed service streamlines work with impressive configuration and expansion capabilities

Pros

"I use Amazon RDS to support scalability, with multi-AZ support being an essential aspect."

Cons

"The technical support from Amazon could improve. I would rate them a six out of ten as they do not fully meet my expectations."
Karthikeyan Katkam - PeerSpot user
AWS Engineer at Neurolov.ai
Verified user of Amazon RDS
Nov 19, 2024
Enhancing and easing database management through simplified monitoring and updates

Pros

" It offers an easy-to-use interface that allows me to monitor instances and update necessary features conveniently. "

Cons

"The setup might be a bit challenging for multi-level applications."
Pankaj-Kankar - PeerSpot user
Seasoned CTO at Multiple Companies
Verified user of Amazon RDS
Jul 29, 2024
Reliable product helping us simplify the management tasks

Pros

"It significantly reduces database management overhead. "

Cons

"The response time and the number of iterations required for the product's technical support could be improved."
Udhay Prakash Pethakamsetty - PeerSpot user
Data Engineer Manager at Capgemini
Verified user of Amazon RDS
Feb 29, 2024
Provides excellent authentication, authorization, integration, data protection, and autoscaling features

Pros

"The product solved our DevOps and admin problems."

Cons

"The product should support new databases."