Amazon RDS Reviews

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.

We have some cases where our customers are looking for more performance or simplifying their DR. So, in this way, we have some cases where the customers moved from EC2 using enterprise license to Amazon RDS with less cost or with included standardization. So, we have cases of moving from EC2 to RDS to simplify the management and also simplify the DR strategy.

The most valuable feature is how simple it is to implement the solution's multiple phases, and also and also have the DR strategy on Amazon. For me, I think it is a great feature how simple it is to increase the performance of instances running on Amazon RDS.

For me, I think that it will be great to have the option to have more SQL or have a deployment allowing for configuring it with a Microsoft SQL server.

Currently, speaking of Microsoft SQL on RDS, you don't have a full option to be able to use it directly on RDS. So, it needs improvement. It will be good to have more solutions with a simple deployment. So being in one region, you should have the option to deploy the solution in another region.

I have been using Amazon RDS for three years. Also, I am using the solution's latest version.

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

I haven't used the support, but as a partner, I rate the support a ten out of ten since we have a lot of technicians, like solution architects and so on. So the support is great. And we also have feedback from the customers regarding the tech support manager and the support they received. So, overall it is great.

Positive

The initial deployment of RDS was straightforward since our teams have experience.

I have seen a return on investment using the solution.

The pricing of RDS is a little bit high compared to Microsoft. But we know that it is related to Microsoft licenses. However, it is a good price compared to other solutions.

I would recommend the solution to others. I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten.

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

The solution has helped us have valuable metrics on our customer's business.

The most valuable feature of Amazon RDS is its performance.

The solution could improve the administration tools.

I have been using Amazon RDS for approximately three years.

The stability of Amazon RDS is good.

We do not have plans to increase the usage of the solution.

I have not used the support from the vendor.

The initial setup was straightforward.

We have seen an ROI using the solution.

Amazon RDS is less expensive than other solutions.

I rate Amazon RDS a nine out of ten.

Amazon RDS is primarily for web applications.

The solution is good for on-premise deployments.

The solution could improve by adding a sandbox environment and more security.

I have been using Amazon RDS for approximately one year.

I rate the stability of Amazon RDS a five out of ten.

I plan to increase the usage of this solution.

I rate the scalability of Amazon RDS a five out of ten.

I rate the stability of Amazon RDS a nine out of ten.

Positive

The setup of Amazon RDS was complex.

I have received a return on investment using the solution.

The price of Amazon RDS is reasonable.

I rate Amazon RDS a ten out of ten.

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

The performance has been fine. We have no complaints in regard to the speed.

It is very easy to set up initially.

It is stable and reliable.

I do not have complaints about RDS.

The solution tends to have a lot of updates. It's a very short time before we need to update again.

Technical support could be better.

They should make it cheaper for the users. 

I've been using the solution for ten years. I've used it for quite a long time. It's been a decade or so. 

The solution is very stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It doesn't break down.

The support is not so good. We did choose the support level that was a little cheaper, and we don't find them to be that helpful or responsive. 

The setup process is simple and straightforward. It is not overly complex. 

It only takes about ten to 20 minutes to deploy the product. It's very fast.

I have found the price to be a little bit too expensive. 

We're an Amazon partner.

I'm not sure which version of the solution I am using. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

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. 

Amazon RDS is good for backups, auto-scanning, and disaster recovery. It's also appropriate for the office server. 

An RDS account cannot be shared when you close it. You need an encryption key to clone the data, but you cannot share it. 

I have used Amazon RDS for more than seven years.

The stability is good.

Scalability is an issue. It doesn't handle large data sets well, so we use a different solution for those. This is a limitation of RDBMs, and data doubles every two years. 

AWS support is decent, but it's not as good as before. Sometimes, we get junior staff who are unable to answer our questions. It also depends on the support team you get. Support based in Europe and Australia is better than US support. For example, European support is quick to deliver the right answer. US support handles routine maintenance issues, and it's mostly junior staff who don't know the product well. 

We use multiple solutions from various vendors. It's better to compare Amazon RDS to AWS Aura and MySQL. You pay more with Aura, and it cannot handle our scheduled databases.

I rate Amazon RDS nine out of 10 for ease of setup.

I rate Amazon RDS eight out of 10 overall. 

The benefits I experienced while using Amazon RDS stemmed from the fact that it provided me with the database and helped with managing searches in AWS. With Amazon RDS, you have your database without worrying about infrastructure, updates, or other things.

The shortcomings stem from not Amazon RDS as a product but are related to its monitoring capabilities. I feel Amazon RDS should have a lot of functionalities to make monitoring within the database easier. Amazon RDS should provide more granularity of log entries.

I have had a few years of experience with Amazon RDS. I was a user of the solution.

I found it to be a stable solution.

I never needed the solution's technical support.

Amazon RDS was the first tool with which I used databases or services on the cloud.

Currently, I work with Microsoft Azure SQL Database in my new company.

Speaking about Microsoft Azure SQL Database, you would always have the latest version and latest update since Microsoft is the owner of the Microsoft Stack.

Amazon RDS is easy to deploy and integrate, but it depends on the solution. Maybe if you need to restore your database in a different region or in a different account or want to run Amazon RDS databases in multi-account environments, then it can be really hard and painful.

Amazon RDS is an expensive solution.

I would tell those who plan to use Amazon RDS to understand how it works and determine the pricing part before purchasing it since it is expensive.

The ease of using Amazon RDS depends on your platform, design, and software. Amazon RDS is easy to use if you have an AWS infrastructure.

With Amazon RDS, integrations with third-party solutions can be easy and beneficial for the product's monitoring part only. In general, integrating Amazon RDS with third-party solutions can be a complex process.

I rate the overall product an eight and a half out of ten.

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

Currently, we are not using RDS as, it has some limitations on DB schema creation, it allows limited tenant DB creations...expecting to release RDS custom RDS very soon

It is stable, scalable, and easy to deploy.

Expecting to have AWS RDS custom.

I have been using this solution for almost four years.

It is stable.

It is scalable. We have more than 12,000 users who are using this solution.

When we depend on the AWS technical team, we need to pay more. For tech support, they are charging about 25% of the actual bill, which is too high for me. If it is fixed to something like $200, I can go for that, but currently, it is too high for me.

Positive

Earlier we used Rackspace, it is very costly and more technical depedancy

It is straightforward. It takes only a couple of minutes.

We did it on our own.

Cost always depends on usage

We evaluated azure, but we faced some issues with wild card domains 

The product is pretty good, but its support is very expensive. 

I would rate it a ten out of ten.

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.

The first thing I like about RDS is the on-prem implementation. The time to install or set up a database environment is very fast.

The resilience, multi-zone resilience, and availability are great. We don't need to extensively create any replication services or anything that we have to worry about as DBAs. Everything is given. It's just a matter of punching in the parameters and in the background, it all that is configured. 

The initial setup is straightforward. 

It's scalable.

The solution is reliable and stable. 

If you are a very tech-savvy guy who is a DBA, there are certain limitations due to how it's been implemented. You cannot do a lot of platform-level changes if that's how it's been set up, however, it's not required actually. Those limitations have not stopped anything, not stopped us from doing anything. That said, someone more technical may not like the limitations. Platform-level changes are not allowed. 

The solution is a bit expensive. 

I've been dealing with the solution for the last eight months. 

I haven't experienced any stability and can therefore say it's reliable and the performance is good. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

I've found the solution to be scalable. 

I have worked with only three clients at the moment with RDS.

Technical support has been very good. 

The implementation process is straightforward. The instructions are very clear. Even a person with basic knowledge would be able to spin up an RDS without an issue. It's not very complicated. The parameters are simple. You can read and understand everything very easily and know what questions to ask and what parameters to consider.

One staff member is more than enough for deployment and maintenance. 

You don't need a separate staff for the RDS management. A regular person who manages the rest of the Amazon services can easily monitor it. It has a very good service called CloudWatch, Amazon CloudWatch. Through CloudWatch, everything could be monitored very, very well. All these services are auto-scale. Alerts can be automated as well. I've done this for clients. We have it configured in a way where it's very easy to maintain and manage. We don't need to continuously monitor or anything. We have set thresholds and that CloudWatch service actually helps us to do the monitoring part automatically.

Across most of the database services, it had been a little expensive. It's not only Amazon. If you look at other cloud solution providers, they have to reconsider bringing the prices down. Some clients might not be able to reap their ROI the way that the pricing has been structured for RDS services. It was quite expensive.

I'm an implementer.

I'd recommend the solution. It would be perfect for whoever starts a small or medium business. This is the go-to database they should consider.

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.