I use Amazon RDS to store and manage data securely. It helps me retrieve information and gain insights from the data that comes in for my business or specific applications.
Senior DevSecOps Engineer at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
Stores data and retrieves to information to gain insights
Pros and Cons
- "I use Amazon RDS to store and manage data securely. It helps me retrieve information and gain insights from the data that comes in for my business or specific applications."
- "I like using Amazon RDS because it offers quick operations for me. However, there are times when understanding how to use some of the services can be challenging, even with documentation. If I could add a feature, I'd improve navigation for related services."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
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.
What needs improvement?
I like using Amazon RDS because it offers quick operations for me. However, there are times when understanding how to use some of the services can be challenging, even with documentation. If I could add a feature, I'd improve navigation for related services.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the product for a few years,
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Amazon RDS is a stable product with minimal bugs.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The product's scalability is good. It is used by over 1000 users in my company.
How are customer service and support?
I have contacted the tool's support.
How was the initial setup?
I find the tool's installation easy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is expensive.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Amazon RDS an eight out of ten.
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
An easy-to-manage and affordable solution that has customizable performance, high availability, and duality
Pros and Cons
- "Amazon RDS is easy to manage, and it has customizable performance, high availability, and duality."
- "The solution's version upgrade and performance could be improved."
What is our primary use case?
We use Amazon RDS to store DB for the database.
What is most valuable?
Amazon RDS is easy to manage, and it has customizable performance, high availability, and duality. Migration is also very flexible with the solution.
What needs improvement?
The solution's version upgrade and performance could be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used Amazon RDS for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate Amazon RDS an eight out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate Amazon RDS an eight out of ten for scalability.
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup is easy.
What was our ROI?
We have seen a return on investment with Amazon RDS.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Amazon RDS is cheaper compared to other tools.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I rate Amazon RDS an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
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Co-Founder & CEO at CLOUDEX
A good database solution that has an easy initial setup
Pros and Cons
- "Amazon RDS is very easy to use."
- "Amazon RDS should have a more user-friendly graphical user interface and include better database management options."
What is our primary use case?
Amazon RDS is a good database.
What is most valuable?
Amazon RDS is very easy to use.
What needs improvement?
Amazon RDS should have a more user-friendly graphical user interface and include better database management options.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Amazon RDS for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Amazon RDS is a stable solution.
I rate Amazon RDS a nine out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Around 100 people are using Amazon RDS in our organization.
I rate Amazon RDS an eight out of ten for scalability.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before Amazon RDS, I used Oracle and SQL Server. I switched to Amazon RDS to use the cloud.
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup is easy.
What about the implementation team?
The solution was deployed through a consultant, and it took a few minutes to deploy it.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution's license was included in the payment of the cloud. On a scale from one to ten, where ten is the most expensive, and one is the cheapest, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten.
What other advice do I have?
Amazon RDS is a cloud based solution.
I recommend Amazon RDS to other users. I advise users to enforce the DBA to be part of any database cloud. Sometimes, people think managing the database is easy because the cloud is easy. However, that is not always the case.
Overall, I rate Amazon RDS an eight out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Cloud Solutions Architect at gwcloud.company
A highly scalable and affordable solution that provides ease of management and a high return on investment
Pros and Cons
- "The solution’s scalability, usability, and availability are valuable to us."
- "The product must add more older versions of the database engines."
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution to host databases.
How has it helped my organization?
The product provides ease of management. We do not have to worry about the database. We just worry about the data. It is really convenient.
What is most valuable?
The solution’s scalability, usability, and availability are valuable to us. It’s a really good solution.
What needs improvement?
The product must add more older versions of the database engines.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for six years. I am using the latest version of the product.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the product’s stability a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the tool’s scalability a ten out of ten. It is really, really scalable.
How was the initial setup?
The initial deployment was straightforward. We can do it via CLI, or we can do it pretty much like a Windows machine. We can just click on the next button when prompted and click on finish at the end.
What was our ROI?
We see a 100% return on investment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The cost varies depending on our use and our database engine. RDS is the database, and AWS manages it for us. It is cheaper to host on a cloud machine ourselves. RDS increases the cost because it manages the database. It’s really, really good. The solution is fairly priced.
What other advice do I have?
I use the solution every day. People who are considering the solution must use it. Forget about the price. It is way better to use RDS than to host a database ourselves. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Director, Systems Engineering at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
A stable and scalable tool to maintain database records that should consider improving its technical support
Pros and Cons
- "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."
- "The support team of Amazon RDS provides us with some links to go through whenever we face some issues, but it doesn't work for us."
What is our primary use case?
We use Amazon RDS in our company to maintain logs and database records.
What is most valuable?
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.
What needs improvement?
In our company, we have not considered what needs improvement in the solution.
The solution should consider offering some email support to its users. The support team of Amazon RDS provides us with some links to go through whenever we face some issues, but it doesn't work for us.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Amazon RDS for the past two years. Speaking about the solution's version, I currently use MySQL 8.0.32. My company is a customer of the solution.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a pretty stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is definitely a scalable solution, but we have not scaled up to the maximum since we have not faced any problems yet, considering we operate well within the threshold, which makes the product good for us.
My entire team consisting of around fifty people uses the solution.
How are customer service and support?
Unfortunately, our company doesn't have the developer support option in our account, and because of this, we cannot contact any technical support.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
My company uses Linux-based products, so we use Ubuntu Linux.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was easy.
The solution is deployed on the cloud.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
In my case, MySQL is free, and if there are any costs, then it is much less than other solutions since all such things usually come bundled with the hardware. We don't pay separate license fees for MySQL, but the hardware cost depends on what machines we use.
What other advice do I have?
To those planning to use Amazon RDS, I would say that it is pretty simple to start with, especially if you don't have a complicated database architecture. If the product's potential users meet the aforementioned factors, Amazon RDS would be the best, especially for those dealing with MySQL.
Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Student at a university with 10,001+ employees
An easy to use tool that helps to find latency
Pros and Cons
- "The tool is very easy to use and configure."
- "I would like to see improvements in the tool's automatic restart."
What is our primary use case?
I use the tool to find out latency.
What is most valuable?
The tool is very easy to use and configure.
What needs improvement?
I would like to see improvements in the tool's automatic restart.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for two to three months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The tool is stable.
How are customer service and support?
The tool's support is nice.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The tool's initial setup is straightforward.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I would rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Good support, easy to deploy, and scalable
Pros and Cons
- "Encryption is the most valuable feature."
- "Amazon has a policy of automatically restarting the server every seven days."
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution to encrypt our data.
What is most valuable?
Encryption is the most valuable feature.
What needs improvement?
To save costs, I need to shut down my server. However, Amazon has a policy of automatically restarting the server every seven days. This means that I have to repeatedly shut down the server to avoid incurring extra expenses.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for almost eight years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution is scalable.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support is good and easy to use. The support will answer our questions even if the issue is not related to their service.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward. The deployment takes around ten minutes.
What about the implementation team?
We help our customers implement the solution in-house.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The price of Amazon RDS is expensive. We pay for the monitoring and the uploading.
What other advice do I have?
I give the solution a nine out of ten.
The solution supports all organization sizes.
Amazon RDS is utilized globally, but in certain regions, such as China, Ali Cloud is predominantly utilized due to specific requirements and restrictions.
Amazon RDS is a viable solution, however, storage and monitoring costs can add up significantly. Therefore, organizations should be mindful of these expenses and budget accordingly.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner
Senior Solutions Architect at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
Valuable snapshots and automatic backups; straightforward deployment
Pros and Cons
- "The Amazon RDS features I found most valuable are snapshots and automatic backups."
- "In the next release, it would be great to see RDS provide connection pooling out of the box."
What is our primary use case?
Our primary use case for this solution is relational data services.
What is most valuable?
The Amazon RDS features I found most valuable are snapshots and automatic backups.
What needs improvement?
In the next release, it would be great to see RDS provide connection pooling out of the box.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for eight years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability of this solution a nine, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best. It has never crashed on us.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
My impression is that Amazon RDS is quite a scalable solution. If there are any issues, it's usually on the application side of things.
How was the initial setup?
My impression is that deployment is quite straightforward. It took just one person in our company to deploy it.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate this solution a 10, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Teach Lead - (Senior) Mean Full Stack Developer at GreenMedia Partners (Pvt) Ltd
Simple to install and reliable, but the documentation could be improved
Pros and Cons
- "The dashboard and performance are the most valuable features of Amazon RDS."
- "With my limited experience, I have noticed that documentation management could be improved. It could be better."
What is most valuable?
The dashboard and performance are the most valuable features of Amazon RDS.
What needs improvement?
In terms of what needs to be improved, I am unable to provide appropriate feedback because we are still familiarizing ourselves with the solution.
Some of the documents that I have seen also state that Amazon previously supported MS SQL, which is great, but we are going into the database areas of PostgreSQL and MySQL.
With my limited experience, I have noticed that documentation management could be improved. It could be better.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with Amazon RDS for three months.
We are using the latest version.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Amazon RDS is stable. I have not had any issues with the stability of this solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We are just now experimenting with scalability.
We have two engineers using this solution in our organization.
How are customer service and support?
We are not receiving direct support from them, AWS. But from the previous company, we got one of the API services for this one, which was fine. But because of the account, we stopped the service, taking the service. We are still maintaining the solution on our end.
I would rate the technical support a three or four out of five.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
EC2 and Lambda functions are two of Amazon's other services.
There is another service that I have used. I have used Amazon services.
Our team and CTO are also looking into it. They were suggesting that Amazon was the best.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was easy for me. In the beginning, I began with research and development. I didn't have any issues, it comes naturally to me.
What about the implementation team?
I deployed this solution myself.
It took me, two or three hours to complete because I had to go through the documentation and check those areas.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I am not aware of the licensing costs.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in using it.
I would rate Amazon RDS a seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Database Administrator at Cartrack
It gives us the ability to select as many tools, replicas, regions, and zones as we want
Pros and Cons
- "Amazon RDS gives us the ability to select as many tools, replicas, regions, and zones as we want."
- "RDS is stable, a cloud solution is always stable, and RDS servers are solid."
- "Some of the features will not be there. For example, some on-premises things we want to set up will not be supported there. There are some challenges that they are fixing."
What is our primary use case?
We have on-prem servers and our database is hosted in the cloud on Amazon RDS. Everything is automated there, like setting up backups and replication. We have around 40 persons using RDS.
What is most valuable?
Amazon RDS gives us the ability to select as many tools, replicas, regions, and zones as we want.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used Amazon RDS for six or seven years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
RDS is stable. A cloud solution is always stable, and RDS servers are solid.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Amazon RDS is highly scalable. It is much simpler to scale up compared to an on-premise solution where you need to buy new hardware and migrate all the data. Ifwe need more capacity, there is a symbol that you can click on to upgrade your hardware.
If you want one more server in a different region, you can spin it up and everything is done on the cloud. You can just select what you need and go, whether you're going to downgrade or upgrade to system type TX for whatever configuration you want.
How are customer service and support?
Amazon support is good, but we've only communicated with them via email so far. We email support when we have questions, and they've always come up with the proper solution.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before Amazon, we had MySQL and PostgreSQL, but it's not like we switched We still have on-premise solutions and some things in the cloud. Most of our stuff is still on-prem. It depends on if it's a critical application that is heavily used, so you don't have downtime.
How was the initial setup?
Installation is straightforward. You choose your database for RDS, like MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc., and select the distance type. It takes a maximum of five minutes time to select and set up the system. Our servers can be up and running in 10 to 15 minutes, and data migration took about an hour.
What about the implementation team?
We have several in-house teams with separate databases, so they usually take care of it for us. I worked on some databases. We have a different method for RDS. One stacked, so we build our own scripts and publish them in the stack.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Amazon RDS is a little costly, but it also reduces the number of full-time employees needed. We require fewer system admins or DBS because RDS reduces our workload.
It's pay as you go. Once you are using it, you will get support. You don't need to buy a yearly license to get support. If we deployed our server there, we would get support from them.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Amazon RDS nine out of 10. I recommend it. Cost is the only issue. RDS is one of the best choices if you need scalability and reliability, but you're not worried about the cost.
Some of the features will not be there. For example, some on-premises things we want to set up will not be supported there. There are some challenges there that they are fixing.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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