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Amazon RDS Primary Use Case

Samuel Ebite - PeerSpot reviewer
AICE Graduate at alx_africa

The primary use case for Amazon RDS is to optimize database management. The technology is utilized to ensure high availability, deploying the RDS technology across multiple availability zones for better fault tolerance and minimized downtime. 

Its use case is critical for applications that require high availability. Additionally, it is valuable for scalability with features like read replicas and storage auto-scaling, allowing easy scaling with increased users.

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VinodKumar9 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Developer at aimleap

I used S3 bucket to save files. Additionally, I used the SQL database.

S3 is Simple Storage Service, which we usually utilize for specific purposes. For example, we created a system where we share videos and photos where we comment and produce work. In the backend, we save the files that are loading in the S3 bucket, and that link is provided to the front end for displaying the image. That is why we use S3 bucket for storage purposes. It serves as a simple storage solution.

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AWS Architect at Virtual University

I am working on DevOps, tools, Kubernetes, and Docker. I work with Docker on CentOS. I have been working with Docker on CentOS.

We are using AWS tools almost exclusively. Currently, we are not using Amazon RDS, but in the past two to three months ago, I have built it during university projects, helped final year students, and taught some students to solve their problems and parts of problems that encourage and help in their projects.

I have been working with Amazon RDS for 6 months. We are using MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and SQL server for Amazon RDS. Customers usually use Amazon RDS for database authentication and production accounts, secrets manager parameters, stores, and making RDP passwords.

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Sr. Lead - Engineering at GlobalLogic

We are more on the development side of it. We develop software using RDS.

So, use cases are specific to our clients. We work for our clients, so whatever use cases they have, we generally support them on the cloud. Mostly for transaction processing of the application software that we develop for our clients. It could be in the health care domain, transport domain, or anything like that.

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reviewer2668191 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP engineering at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I use Amazon RDS to support scalability, with multi-AZ support being an essential aspect. It offers a managed service that simplifies my work significantly. I use it across multiple companies, supporting all scalability and availability needs.

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Karthikeyan Katkam - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Engineer at Neurolov.ai

I am using Amazon RDS and CDMS clients for monitoring databases. I have set up multi-level servers for data collection and application development.

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Pankaj-Kankar - PeerSpot reviewer
Seasoned CTO at Multiple Companies

The primary use cases include storing transactional data for e-commerce, payments, and fintech transactions. It is used to manage and store various types of critical data in these domains.

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Udhay Prakash Pethakamsetty - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer Manager at Capgemini

Amazon RDS is my primary database. I store and perform CRUD operations in it.

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EB
Senior Consultant at Mark Gurry & Associates

I use mostly the Postgres incarnation of Amazon RDS. Basically, Amazon RDS is a cheap database that is totally self-contained and self-managed, and that is its good part. There is also the downfall associated with the tool since you don't have you don't have root privileges or super-user privileges on Amazon RDS, so there are certain things you cannot do. Sometimes, when I really needed a database that I could have absolute control over, I used to spin AWS VMs and EC2 machines and load Postgres on that machine so that I could become a super-user. Amazon RDS is very useful for quick and dirty or for very established solutions where you don't have to develop or change a lot. Basically, you can you can load your data into Amazon RDS. In my data analytics space, I see Amazon RDS as an ancillary product to Redshift, which is the real workhorse in terms of big data, data warehousing, and analytics.

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AndrewBurt - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use the platform for simple applications with straightforward database structures.

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Lucky  Lushaba - PeerSpot reviewer
Scrum Master at Inalpie Enterprise

We use the solution for data storage.

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Ramkumar  Kolpurath - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder & CTO at Busofttech

We have a SaaS-based application. We use the RDS version of SQL Server because it is self-managed by AWS in terms of patch management, SQL server patch management, and OS patch management.

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Saurav P - PeerSpot reviewer
Big Data Engineer at Cognizant

We use Amazon RDS to store DB for the database.

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HD
Cloud Engineer at REDtone Digital Services

I use it for testing purposes only. My role involves managing RDS services for customers, ensuring they meet their specific requirements.

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Venkateswar Ndt - PeerSpot reviewer
Controler at Emirates

We use Amazon RDS for storage and scaling the database.

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Kiran Rajanna - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect and Cloud Security Consultant at Cgi Deutschland KG

We migrate to Amazon RDS instead of traditional OLTP databases. We experience the ease of management and reduced operational expenses. 

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MN
Manager, Enterprise Service at Hang Seng Bank

The solution helps us to move databases from on-premises to other areas. 

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reviewer2349756 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DevSecOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

I use Amazon RDS to store and manage data securely. It helps me retrieve information and gain insights from the data that comes in for my business or specific applications.

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AnilKumar31 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Systems Engineering at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We use Amazon RDS in our company to maintain logs and database records.

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ARIEL MUNAFO - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder & CEO at CLOUDEX

Amazon RDS is a good database.

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Adalberto Barbosa Da Costa Lobato - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solutions Architect at gwcloud.company

We use the solution to host databases.

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LD
Manager at Deloitte

We use the solution to encrypt our data.

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BharathKumar2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Administrator at Cartrack

We have on-prem servers and our database is hosted in the cloud on Amazon RDS. Everything is automated there, like setting up backups and replication. We have around 40 persons using RDS.

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MA
Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

When I was working for at my previous organization, we wanted to bring stability to all our MySQL databases. As a DBA, at first, it was scary as I thought I would be out of a job, however, the RDS managed DB allowed me to focus more on optimization and less on administration. (both hardware and software). 

When I was working at another organization we had a large amount of MySQL on-prem to manage. It required lots of time to set them up, monitoring, and maintain them. RDS really allowed us to remove all the painful administration parts. 

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ME
IT Help Desk Specialist at Nafeza

I use the solution in my company as a database.

I use the solution for database setup and management, along with other factors like HA, durability, security, performance, automated backup, and maintenance.

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Team Lead at Midland Credit Management, Inc.

I use the solution to store the data of the applications we run on AWS Lambda.

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Sunita Gajurel - PeerSpot reviewer
Student at a university with 10,001+ employees

I use the tool to find out latency. 

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reviewer1975647 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use case for this solution is relational data services.

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Kenan Çiftçi - PeerSpot reviewer
Corporate Database Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I work with Amazon RDS for our credit card business operations.

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reviewer2147010 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps DBA at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We use the solution to migrate products from on-premises to AWS environment.

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reviewer2081601 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer/ Data Architect at a government with 201-500 employees

We use Amazon RDS for our Oracle Learning system. About five clients or so use it for that. We also offer a database service using Oracle, Amazon RDS, and Microsoft SQL Server RDS for our rental clients. 

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MM
Electrical Engineer at Strathmore University

I use this solution because I am trying to develop a fintech application.

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Naresh Reddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions Architect at OORWIN LABS INC

It's very useful to save customer's data in a secure manner, we can easily handle all the customer records with encryption mode.

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reviewer2252781 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I use Amazon RDS for my access control system, which manages permissions for users to enter places like universities, workspaces, and club team areas. Amazon RDS stores user data and keeps access permissions current, ensuring the system is reliable and responsive for user security and convenience.

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LS
Business Manager at Darede Serviços de TI

We have a lot of benefits moving to managed services, including Amazon RDS. It is a great service, and we have a lot of cases needing Amazon RDS. So, it is a great product.

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Jay Vekaria - PeerSpot reviewer
Linux System Administrator at Ergode

We use it in our organization since it is a managed database service. So we can manage our database within UAM.


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JL
Head Of Information Technology at Bquate Music

Amazon RDS helps with information regarding the customer's business performance.

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reviewer2027361 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Amazon RDS is used for SQL Databases.

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昌遠
Maintanece IT infastructure at 株式会社インフォセンス

We primarily use the solution for internal systems and the database.

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Shaamil Ashraff - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect - Database Administration at Mitra Innovation

Whatever is to be stored, for example, any database requirements, you can use RDS, unless you need to scale it to quite a large size, RDS could be a good solution. You can still go beyond RDS, however, basically for small to medium-sized database requirements, you can always reliably use RDS as a database solution.

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VamsiMohan - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Huber

Amazon RDS is custom development. 

Some databases that we would like to use are lightweight and simple to integrate with the application.

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reviewer963066 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Database Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We primarily have many tools, including Jira, that are currently using RDS. It's mainly used by developers.

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Head of Data Projects at Cognitivo

We deployed RDS in our environment, and our use case is so simple. We don't have large-scale use, but we will start using RDS with more users. For now, we deployed it, and we use RDS with only a few users.

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AC
Data Engineer at Elastacloud

We are using AWS RDS to have a database that we're not using at the moment. I'm not making any changes to the parameter of the database or the configuration of the database on AWS. I just have to open a new port on the map of the network to have a connection to the prepaid network.

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reviewer1472997 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

This product is used primarily for storing data. The process is you have to reserve RDS space and then you can install any database scheme you want, for example, MariaDB, SQL or Aurora. We typically use Aurora DB. 

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SR
Principal engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We have cloud infra and development teams and my job with this solution is to move them to a cloud architecture, so I create a migration plan for Database from on-premises to AWS Cloud , co-ordinate with teams to host the planned RDS solutions and provide support for post cloud hosting challenges for better customer experience. 

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GK
IT Solution Architect at HCS

The primary use case is when you have to host your application on the Amazon cloud and your application uses database. Amazon RDS supports the following database engines: Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database, and SQL Server database. Amazon provides AWS Database Migration Service to migrate your existing databases to the Amazon cloud. It automates many aspects of database management viz hardware provisioning, database set up, database patching, and backups, which frees your database administrator to focus on important tasks. It also saves on the DB licencing costs.

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JY
Software Architecture Lead at SoftwareONE

Amazon RDS is primarily for web applications.

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VP
EVP Technology at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

We use it for data warehousing and transforming data.

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reviewer1410678 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Analyst at a tech company with 51-200 employees

It is used for multiple needs. We have a transaction system with multiple databases, such as SQL Server and MySQL.

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