Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a fully managed cloud database service provided by AWS that simplifies the setup, operation, and scaling of relational databases. It supports multiple popular database engines including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and SQL Server,…

Key facts

First appeared: 2009
Category: technology
Problem solved: Managing and scaling relational databases in production environments, including hardware provisioning, OS maintenance, backups, patching, replication, and failover, which were time-consuming and error-prone when done manually on self-managed servers.
Platforms: Linux-based instances, AWS Cloud (all regions)

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