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Thinking about database service, Wise Decision is RDS.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use RDS for database development and production. Its fully managed capacity and scalability improve productivity and make us tension-free in all environments. I help us create and build instances in seconds, which the teams require, and through which they easily integrate their service with a few clicks.

Pros

  • Scalability.
  • Fully Management.
  • Encryption for the databases.
  • Easy to manage.

Cons

  • For sure, pricing.
  • Limited sharding support.

Likelihood to Recommend

Based on my 3 years of experience with RDS, I'll recommend that people use it if they need a database as a service in a few clicks to avoid configuration headaches and security issues. When there is a huge amount of data, improvements in sharding for the database are needed.
Vetted Review
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
3 years of experience

Amazon RDS is the best cloud-native database service.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use RDS to manage all of our SQL databases for multiple billing and payment applications. This includes Aurora and PostgreSQL databases with millions of records and several terabytes of data. These databases are accessed in real time by web applications that handle the requests from thousands of users. RDS handles backups, security, and compliance by default.

Pros

  • Security
  • Backups and availability.
  • Scalability and managing large amounts of data.

Cons

  • Prices are not cheap.
  • Logs could be better.

Likelihood to Recommend

RDS is a smart way to deploy and maintain databases in production with world-class capabilities such as backups, scalability, security, and compliance. If you are starting a company or launching a new application, why manage your own database servers? RDS helps you get started with a production-quality database right from the start.
Vetted Review
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
6 years of experience

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) performance

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used Amazon Relational Database Service for Databricks Technical Field Telemetry(TFT) Project, which is an internal project for field engineering teams where they manage customer engagement, interactions, feedbacks. This majorly helped to improve our product by managing each team, each individual performances, thus they can set targets for improvement plans. It also displays a hit score which is the benchmark for internal teams. We used Amazon Relational Database Service serverless to deploy the backend database, which is lightening fast, reliable DBMS.

Pros

  • Serverless
  • Performance
  • Scalability
  • Reliability

Cons

  • AWS instance downtimes
  • Ease of use
  • End user installation

Likelihood to Recommend

It's best suited for serverless computing, really fast, least downtime. But when the Ec2 instance is down it's directly proportional, also we could see a connection issue when Ec2 instance wasn't open.

Universal, Easy to Use RDS

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) as our primary RDMS for querying and viewing all of our data in one place. Use cases include analyzing player data, performance, and user acquisition

Pros

  • User friendly
  • Great team support and onboarding
  • Integrates seamlessly

Cons

  • additional features to continue enhancing user experience.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think this is a great tool for anyone needing to house multiple sources of data. It integrates well and is a commonly known RDMS, allowing for less complications with external partner collaboration.

Powerful Managed Databases in the Cloud

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon RDS helps set up, run, and grow relational databases in the cloud with the aid of Amazon RDS, a managed relational database service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). There are several, but I'd want to focus on the most significant ones.
a)global Scope
b)cost-effectiveness
c)Security and many more

Pros

  • Global Reach can be possible because of this
  • Cost saving, not too much expensive.
  • Data backup and recovery
  • High availability

Cons

  • It can add more advanced security auditing.
  • Transfer from RDS to another database is complex, it can be improves.
  • Frequent UI changes make daily work a little more challenging until we become accustomed to the New UI. However, there is always a choice to return to the previous user interface.
  • Must support all types of famous databases.

Likelihood to Recommend

#It is most suitable and proper for web applications where we use RDBMS(Relational database). #E-Commerce Platforms: Because RDS is scalable and can handle changing workloads during sales events or seasonal traffic spikes, e-commerce platforms, and online retailers can profit from it. #RDS can offer a safe and scalable alternative for mobile apps that frequently need a backend database for user data.

*Not well managed on the migration of databases.
*RDS does not support advanced features that are unique to some database engines.

Easy to implement relational DB option for your company

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) as our main database to store daily data from our application. We need to store different kind of data generated from our application and we need to ensure it is always available and with multiple layers of security/redundancy to avoid downtime and to comply with compliance standards.

Pros

  • SQL data
  • Backup
  • Management

Cons

  • Monitoring
  • Audit
  • User management

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need a SQL database Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) provides multiple options for all flavors. It also delivers easy management and pretty decent speeds. If you have non relational data then it is better to avoid it instead of making workarounds to make it work. Today some of the RDS options do offer more modern data structure and might fit.
Vetted Review
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
2 years of experience

Replication and Disaster Recovery made easy

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) ir order to replicate our on prem databases to the cloud. It is very straightforward to configure this type of replication.

Pros

  • Easy use
  • Good monitoring
  • low cost

Cons

  • the gui is not very intuitive
  • restarting the service could be faster
  • choosing the correct storage and instance type could be challenging

Likelihood to Recommend

I think it is well suited for scenarios where you need to configure a database quickly for testing or replication purposes.
I think it is less appropriate if you need full control over the database cluster.
Vetted Review
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
1 year of experience

RDS for your Postgres managed cluster

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using it as a managed service for our Postgres database management. It is easy to use, maintain, and configure, with no administration headache, logging and monitoring come out of the box. It also supports backups and recovery. It has all the security considerations that we need for production-scale database.

Pros

  • security
  • Backup and recovery
  • Monitoring and logging
  • Scalability
  • Hight availability
  • Extensions and Plugins

Cons

  • Maintenance Windows
  • Lot's of advance configurations

Likelihood to Recommend

If you want managed service then it is the best use case for you. You get lots of things out of the box compared to managing you data base your yourself. For people who are actual DB admins and want to control everything on their own or need on-premises deployment should not go for this service.
Vetted Review
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
3 years of experience

Good choice, but only for experts.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we used AWS Rational Database as we needed to migrate a PostreSql database from another cloud provider to AWS. We needed a database that was reliable and high performance but at the same time also cost effective and configurable to my company's high security standards. The Database also had to be connected to the Backend inside a VPC with no possibility of being exposed to the public.

Pros

  • Cheaper
  • Reliable
  • Customizable

Cons

  • Complex and non-intuitive configuration
  • Possibility of connection from the outside only through a Tunnel with EC2
  • Lacks ability to consult the DB form the console

Likelihood to Recommend

With Amazon Rational Database, DBs are configurable in every aspect. You can configure it according to your needs moreover AWS also says best practices that would be best to implement, for example to set up Multi-AZ Database or create an autoscaling function.On the other hand, I find RDS less suitable for the less experienced. The configuration is complex and if you do not know beve where and what to configure.
Vetted Review
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
1 year of experience

Amazon RDS Deep Dive: Scaling Sky-High with Database Delight!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Amazon Aurora as one of the databases used for hosting a product in our Edtech SaaS Platform GIDE.AI.

Pros

  • Setting-up, Monitoring & Managing DB is super easy.
  • It has automatic backup and in Multi A-Z mode DB can be used in Mirrored mode.
  • Has Point in time recovery, which was super useful, when a team member accidentally updated some entries and we were able to restore it super quickly.

Cons

  • On the fly DB Vertical Scaling could be useful.
  • Connection Display & stats can be present to see and improve app design
  • Could have inbuilt service for troubleshooting, locks, slow queries.

Likelihood to Recommend

1. All Transactional Processes 2. Storage of Structured Data Not suited for applications that have highly changing requirements. Better to use a NoSQL DB as it provides the ability to store unstructured data.