Alibaba Cloud Relational Database Service (RDS)
Alibaba Cloud Relational Database Service (RDS) is a fully managed cloud database service that supports various popular relational database engines, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MariaDB. It automates common administrative tasks like provisioning, patching, backup, recovery, and…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2011
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Alibaba Cloud RDS was created to address the significant operational burden, scalability challenges, high availability complexities, and security concerns associated with self-managing relational databases on physical servers or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms. It sought to free businesses from the undifferentiated heavy lifting of database administration.
- Platforms
- Alibaba Cloud
Related technologies
Notable users
- Numerous enterprises and startups in China and globally leveraging Alibaba Cloud for their applications.
- Alibaba Group (for various internal operations and services)