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Amazon RDS vs Azure SQL Managed Instance comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon RDS
Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)
2nd
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
9th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
58
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Azure SQL Managed Instance
Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)
30th
Ranking in Relational Databases Tools
51st
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

BS
AWS Architect at Virtual University
Customer support and automated backups offer reliability while ease of deployment enhances user experience
The features of Amazon RDS that I have found most valuable include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, data warehousing and analytics, and software as a service platforms, along with dev testing environments, disaster recoveries, and backups. The mobile app backend and development environment is also the best feature for database management for my customers. Database management is effective in Amazon RDS because it offers automated backups, high availability, read replicas, and support from multiple database engineers, while also providing security, monitoring and metrics, scalability. We are using snapshots and database migrations as well as performance optimization. The impact of Amazon RDS scalability and backup has been positive, with good vertical scaling, scale up and down, horizontal scaling, and storage scaling. The performance was good and availability helped with reducing downtime.
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
University
8%
Healthcare Company
6%
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Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise22
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon RDS?
The product's installation phase is easy.
What needs improvement with Amazon RDS?
Currently, I cannot think of any major improvements. Perhaps more platforms in terms of database engine versions would be beneficial. Right now, Amazon RDS supports MySQL and PostgreSQL, but there ...
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