Amazon RDS Valuable Features
Authentication, authorization, and autoscaling features solve half our problems. The integrations are good. When a record comes, I can create a DB trigger. I can store it in S3 buckets. We cannot do it in a traditional database. We will have to run a separate script for it.
We can connect the solution with multiple databases. The vendor is adding all kinds of databases to it. The data protection is good enough. The product solved our DevOps and admin problems. We can add RDS integration with CloudWatch to provide metrics on the database instances. We can do some customizable metric evaluations. We can fire requests with EventBridge depending on events.
The solution has unique features like backup and recovery, and snapshots. It upgrades automatically. The solution offers easy analytics concerning performance metrics. Its reliability and scalability are very good. The tool's most valuable features are disaster recovery, high availability and scalability.
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LucyDai
Manager at Deloitte
Encryption is the most valuable feature.
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Amazon RDS is easy to manage, and it has customizable performance, high availability, and duality. Migration is also very flexible with the solution.
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Hasan Dawood
Cloud Engineer at REDtone Digital Services
Relational databases excel in extensive normalization, eliminating data redundancy and efficiently structuring tables which leads to a clear and efficient relationship between tables using primary keys. Relational databases, such as MySQL, offer a streamlined approach to data retrieval, unlike non-relational databases that often require complex ID referencing. Additionally, relational databases have a more compact footprint, making them more manageable, especially in scenarios with significant daily data processing.
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Data Sleek
Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Create Replicas. Being able to create a replica with just a few clicks is great. Setting replication before would require backup, restore, and synching replication.
Backups. The fact that you can take a snapshot of the database without impacting the server is great. In comparison, large backups could lock tables or take too long. Alternatively, you would have to use tools such as xtraDB backup. That requires lots of code and maintenance.
Change Size. Being able to change the size of an RDS MySQL instance is amazing. There's no need to provision new machines, setup replication, etc. It's all done for you.
View full review »Amazon RDS handles database backup mechanisms and patch management. Since the solution handles OS and database-level patches, we need not worry about security breaches. Amazon RDS has some metrics to show with respect to SQL performance or query running.
View full review »Amazon RDS is a scalable solution.
View full review »The tool is very easy to use and configure.
View full review »The Amazon RDS features I found most valuable are snapshots and automatic backups.
View full review »The solution’s scalability, usability, and availability are valuable to us. It’s a really good solution.
View full review »The performance insight is a valuable feature of the solution since it gives us information on how much data has been and which queries have been taking a long time. Also, it shows the percentage of bin select queries while providing information on how insert queries work, along with the time required for operation and insertion while indicating the performance in sales.
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MatthewNG
Manager, Enterprise Service at Hang Seng Bank
Amazon RDS is easy to maintain and easy to deploy.
View full review »The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it requires an easy setup phase, and it is also easy to use while not being too heavy on its users. Amazon RDS as a database is sufficient for our company's use cases.
View full review »The product is pretty good for small or mid-scale organizations that don't have the luxury of proper DBAs or a large infra team. Scaling up and down is relatively easy without a proper setup. And apart from reducing these overheads, you have better performance insights if you use a server. And if you are serverless, your costs are lower. So we use both.
View full review »Amazon RDS gives us the ability to select as many tools, replicas, regions, and zones as we want.
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Mohamed Abo Elnour
IT Help Desk Specialist at Nafeza
Amazon RDS serves as a managed database service that supports database engines, improving areas involving MySQL cycle and PostgreSQL. The tool obviously handles the working of the database as a provider of managed services. The product also offers backup and recovery.
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AkashShanker
Team Lead at Midland Credit Management, Inc.
The solution is scalable and can be configured with AWS Secrets Manager. So our password is secure. Also, due to Amazon RDS Multi-AZ, other nodes are available for us if we face a problem in a particular zone. This functionality makes the solution resilient.
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reviewer2349756
Senior DevSecOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
In one of our applications, customer interactions, such as subscriptions, transactions, and data from filled forms, are stored in Amazon RDS. This enables us to maintain a backup and aids in disaster recovery. Storing this data in the product allows us to analyze and gain insights into the details that come through the application when customers log in.
During our proof of concept, I had the opportunity to utilize the service alongside the vendor we were testing. Its most valuable feature is the scalability of the storage. It is easy to learn.
View full review »Amazon RDS is very easy to use.
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reviewer2147010
DevOps DBA at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The solution's most valuable feature is the provisioning of products. We don't have to worry about storage approval or hardware availability using this feature. It is the most accessible feature in RDS.
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Mfadhili Muiruri
Electrical Engineer at Strathmore University
I appreciate how Amazon RDS allows me to choose the kind of database I want. The IT is easy to set up, which is the best. It makes it easy to deploy quickly. I initially tried setting up a database on a local machine and realized that several requirements were needed. I needed to do a lot of infrastructure management.
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HemanthaWijesinghe
Teach Lead - (Senior) Mean Full Stack Developer at GreenMedia Partners (Pvt) Ltd
The dashboard and performance are the most valuable features of Amazon RDS.
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reviewer963066
Sr. Database Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The RDS is a community version, so there are many common features that are basic. It's not an enterprise version, but all the features are very good overall.
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Laércio De Jesus Silveira
Business Manager at Darede Serviços de TI
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.
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Jorge León
Head Of Information Technology at Bquate Music
The most valuable feature of Amazon RDS is its performance.
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Juan David Yepes
Software Architecture Lead at SoftwareONE
The solution is good for on-premise deployments.
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昌繁 遠藤
Maintanece IT infastructure at 株式会社インフォセンス
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.
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reviewer2081601
Cloud Engineer/ Data Architect at a government with 201-500 employees
Amazon RDS is good for backups, auto-scanning, and disaster recovery. It's also appropriate for the office server.
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reviewer1143783
Advisory and IT Transformation Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
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.
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reviewer2027361
Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The most valuable aspect of Amazon RDS is it is on the cloud.
View full review »It is stable, scalable, and easy to deploy.
View full review »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.
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reviewer2252781
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable features of Amazon RDS are its scalability, reliability, and intelligence.
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VIJAYANAND P
EVP Technology at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
One of the most valuable features is that it is serverless, so we don't have to worry about scaling.
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Gurudeva Kalledevarpurada B
IT Solution Architect at HCS
Most useful is its availability to support multiple databases, such as Aurora, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MariaDB, and PostgresSQL. Your application can use multiple databases as required. Combine that with the Automated CI/CD tools, this makes it easy to implement the microservices architecture, which is the need of the hour for web based applications. The capability provided by the RDS to automate a portion of the RDBMS tasks, such as backups and performance tunings for multiple database engines, helps to save on DBA time and cost.
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Sivashankar Rajaram
Principal engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
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.
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reviewer1472997
CTO at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The solution has proven to be quite stable so far.
The product is very, very easy to use.
View full review »RDS provides deployment agility and an on-demand database-as-a-service for MySQL, Oracle, and SQL servers.
With RDS, everything is turnkey and always available. For example, due to the inherent multi-availability zone feature of AWS, there is no downtime at all and you can count on AWS RDS to always be available.
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Eric Sousa
Head of Data Projects at Cognitivo
For me, RDS is a great solution. I like that Amazon RDS is a very simple solution to implement and to start using.
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Agnaldo Carmo
Data Engineer at Elastacloud
The initial setup is straightforward, and technical support is good.
View full review »- Easy creation of new databases
- Maintenance is fully automatic (backups, monitoring, and patches)
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reviewer1410678
Data Analyst at a tech company with 51-200 employees
It is easy to use, flexible, and powerful.
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April 2024
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