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PROS

Amazon RDS is stable, scalable, and easy to deploy.
It provides powerful tools for scalability and disaster recovery.
Amazon RDS features automated backups and snapshots for data protection.
The service offers robust encryption using KMS, fulfilling compliance requirements.
Amazon RDS supports large-scale data migrations and reduces database management overhead.

CONS

Amazon RDS's cost is high compared to other providers like GCP.
Documentation management could be improved for better usability.
Technical support from Amazon is rated low, often providing inadequate assistance.
Amazon RDS lacks the support for wider database integration, including Db2 and various NoSQL options.
Migration from on-premises solutions to Amazon RDS is complex, requiring simplification.
 

Amazon RDS Pros review quotes

EB
Senior Consultant at Mark Gurry & Associates
Jul 4, 2024
The product's initial setup phase is totally easy.
GK
IT Solution Architect at HCS
Apr 3, 2020
It makes it easy to administer the database. It helps to scale your database by providing Read Replicas, which reduce transaction time. It is highly available and durable which helps in disaster recovery and management.
VinayKumar2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Data Engineer at Seven Lakes Enterprises, Inc.
Aug 1, 2022
I recommend RDS because it makes your life super easy.
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SR
Principal engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jun 2, 2020
The most valuable feature is that it is a fully managed database, where they handle most of the administrative tasks and leaves the users more time to concentrate on business.
MA
Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Oct 1, 2021
Being able to change the size of an RDS MySQL instance is amazing.
reviewer2592669 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 5, 2025
The biggest advantage of Amazon RDS, which is basically an AWS service, is that you can customize it.
reviewer1472997 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Jan 24, 2021
The product is very, very easy to use.
reviewer2252781 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Sep 19, 2023
The most valuable features of Amazon RDS are its scalability, reliability, and intelligence.
BS
AWS Architect at Virtual University
Jun 4, 2025
The impact of Amazon RDS scalability and backup has been positive, with good vertical scaling, scale up and down, horizontal scaling, and storage scaling.
Shaamil Ashraff - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect - Database Administration at Mitra Innovation
Jun 3, 2022
The time to install or set up a database environment is very fast.
 

Amazon RDS Cons review quotes

EB
Senior Consultant at Mark Gurry & Associates
Jul 4, 2024
As a customer of Amazon RDS, you don't have super-user privileges, and that is the only drawback where improvements are required.
GK
IT Solution Architect at HCS
Apr 3, 2020
The Amazon RDS engine could provide features for additional databases, such as Db2. It could also provide support for other databases, such as NoSQL databases, DynamoDB, and Apache Cassandra. They could all stay under one hood.
VinayKumar2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Data Engineer at Seven Lakes Enterprises, Inc.
Aug 1, 2022
One of the challenges of AWS RDS is that it doesn't support performance insight. So we need to write our own script or use third-party tools.
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SR
Principal engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jun 2, 2020
It would be helpful if they made it easier to migrate from an existing on-premises solution to the cloud-based service.
MA
Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Oct 1, 2021
The Performance Monitor they have is a little clanky, at least in regards to the UI.
reviewer2592669 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Sep 5, 2025
Amazon RDS is expensive compared to GCP. GCP also has the same features, and although it is quite extensive and feature-rich, I see Amazon RDS as slightly expensive compared to other clouds.
reviewer1472997 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Jan 24, 2021
You can only get access from the sales support. That means if you want to buy something or renew your subscription or upgrade, all these services are easily available. Yet, if you would like to get some technical support, you have to pay for it. You have to pay for an additional subscription.
reviewer2252781 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Sep 19, 2023
The only thing that needs improvement would be the pricing of the solution.
BS
AWS Architect at Virtual University
Jun 4, 2025
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.
Shaamil Ashraff - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect - Database Administration at Mitra Innovation
Jun 3, 2022
The solution is a bit expensive.