Amazon RDS vs Azure Database for PostgreSQL comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft are both solutions in the Database as a Service (DBaaS) category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.4, while Microsoft is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.8. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 14.8% mindshare in DS, compared to Microsoft’s 3.3% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

Amazon RDS

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 18, 2026

Amazon RDS and Azure Database for PostgreSQL compete in the cloud-managed database services category. Amazon RDS is perceived to have an edge due to its extensive database support and automation capabilities, which enhance deployment ease and scalability.

Features: Amazon RDS provides flexible deployment across multiple databases including MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL. It's known for its high scalability and automation features that simplify administrative tasks. The ability to support hybrid cloud environments and reduce DBA workload adds to its appeal. Azure Database for PostgreSQL is praised for its networking capabilities, seamless integration with Azure services, and operational efficiency, making it easy to configure and manage while supporting extensive integrations.

Room for Improvement: Amazon RDS could benefit from simplifying the migration process and offering shell access for troubleshooting purposes. Additionally, users would prefer more default-enabled features and improved technical support alongside pricing adjustments. Azure Database for PostgreSQL needs enhancements in monitoring tools and more efficient scalability features. Users also highlight cost challenges related to extensive logging and the need for improved integration processes with other Azure services.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both Amazon RDS and Azure Database for PostgreSQL offer flexible deployment options in public and private clouds, with RDS being notably popular in hybrid environments. Although technical support from both services is satisfactory, Amazon RDS encounters some criticism for costs and support complexity. Meanwhile, Azure users value prompt support but indicate the need for more technically adept, customized solutions.

Pricing and ROI: Amazon RDS is considered cost-effective but faces issues with complex pricing structures and unexpected charges in its pay-as-you-go model, despite potential savings on DBA needs. Azure Database for PostgreSQL offers competitive pricing with clear resource allocation strategies, appreciated by users for providing database-related cost savings and transparency in pricing. Both platforms enable efficient resource management.

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

ROI

Sentiment score

2.6

Organizations benefit financially from Amazon RDS's cost-effectiveness, agility, and scalability, despite varying results and AWS expense concerns.

Sentiment score

4.9

Azure Database for PostgreSQL offers cost savings, efficiency, and flexibility, reducing operational costs and management time with a pay-as-you-go model.

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It offers at least 25 percent cost savings compared to maintaining on-premises databases.

Wesley Haakman

Principle azure architect at Intercept

Now, we use embedded PostgreSQL vectors, which will undoubtedly reduce the TCO by using a much more cost-effective solution.

Daniel Amini

Head of cloud, data, and AI at BJSS

We've reduced our total ownership cost because we are not spending on expensive SQL server licenses.

reviewer2596230

Admin (hands on user) at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

6.8

Amazon RDS support varies by level and location; premium is efficient, but US standard support often lacks expertise.

Sentiment score

5.4

Azure Database for PostgreSQL support experiences vary, praised for responsiveness but criticized for inconsistency and contentious licensing issues.

The documentation is quite good.

Kenan Çiftçi

Corporate Database Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The official AWS technical support for Amazon RDS is helpful, providing 24/7 assistance for all business support cases with tools such as the health dashboard and AWS trusted advisor.

Baqir Sajjad

AWS Architect at Virtual University

I would rate the support from AWS very high, maybe nine, but it also depends on what kind of support you have signed in your contract, whether the premium support or the standard support.

reviewer2592669

Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

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Once we open a support case, we have people engaged within about 20 minutes, especially for a Sev 1 issue.

Nick Rapoport

Financial Advisor at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

On a scale from one to ten, I rate customer service and technical support a nine because they are quick in responding and in working with me to rectify any issues we come across.

Russell Priesing

Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The documentation and training we've received through Microsoft Learn on how to migrate, deploy, and manage the solution is exceptional.

Daniel Amini

Head of cloud, data, and AI at BJSS

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.1

Amazon RDS is praised for its scalability and reliability, though some express minor concerns with large dataset management.

Sentiment score

5.6

Azure Database for PostgreSQL scales efficiently, supporting complex applications with features like FlexServer and recent redundancy and auto-scaling improvements.

Its automated scaling, both in storage and instances, is vital as it eliminates manual interventions.

Samuel Ebite

AICE Graduate at alx_africa

The installation of Amazon RDS is quite easy and quite scalable.

reviewer2592669

Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Despite being a strong feature, scalability could be improved due to the lack of full functionality in autoscaling.

reviewer2668191

VP engineering at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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We do not have to buy everything and build it. It is already there.

George Yen

Systems Engineer II at ICW Group

However, we can see how well it scales after we deploy it for some large enterprise customers or big government organizations.

Daniel Amini

Head of cloud, data, and AI at BJSS

The scaling options with FlexServer provide us with the flexibility we need based on application complexity.

Manikyam Thukkapuram

Director, Alliances & Engineering at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.1

Amazon RDS is praised for reliability, performance, and uptime with minimal issues, especially with Multi-AZ enhancing stability.

Sentiment score

7.2

Azure Database for PostgreSQL is praised for stability, reliable uptime, and Microsoft’s swift resolution of occasional performance issues.

Amazon RDS is very stable when deployed correctly across different zones with the right configurations.

Samuel Ebite

AICE Graduate at alx_africa

It is a stable product overall, with very few issues.

reviewer2668191

VP engineering at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Amazon RDS is quite stable, and the SLAs are sort of 99.98%.

reviewer2592669

Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

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It is the go-to database if seeking performance and capacity.

Swanston Benjamin

Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues; it has been very stable.

Russell Priesing

Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

There is a stability issue where, if the database usage peaks quickly, it may crash and require intervention to restore functionality.

Wesley Haakman

Principle azure architect at Intercept

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Room For Improvement

Amazon RDS users seek improvements in security, documentation, scalability, integration, and support, with enhanced customization and cost reduction.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL needs enhancements in scalability, reliability, monitoring, integrations, user management, and disaster recovery features.

Simplifying migration for those transitioning from on-premises to cloud environments.

Samuel Ebite

AICE Graduate at alx_africa

Having native Change Data Capture (CDC) support would be beneficial, allowing for seamless integration with Kafka without relying on external technologies like Debezium.

reviewer2668191

VP engineering at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Enabling performance insights to view query formats where the bottlenecks occur, identifying the fixes, slow queries, and missing indexes.

Baqir Sajjad

AWS Architect at Virtual University

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It does not presently support knowledge graph functionalities as Neo4j does.

Li Tse Liu

Product manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Azure Database for PostgreSQL can be improved by allowing quicker scaling without blips.

Wesley Haakman

Principle azure architect at Intercept

I believe there could be improvements in the mirroring part and Change Data Capture (CDC).

Manikyam Thukkapuram

Director, Alliances & Engineering at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Setup Cost

Amazon RDS pricing is usage-dependent and cost-effective, offering savings on admin costs but can be expensive compared to alternatives.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL offers cost-effective scalability with pay-as-you-go pricing, despite higher costs than on-premises solutions.

While Azure provides great services, long-term plans on AWS are 20% to 30% cheaper.

Karthikeyan Katkam

AWS Engineer at Neurolov.ai

I find the pricing of Amazon RDS fair, as AWS operates on a pay-for-what-you-use model.

Samuel Ebite

AICE Graduate at alx_africa

I rate the price for Amazon as eight on a scale from one to ten.

Kenan Çiftçi

Corporate Database Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

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We've reduced costs by 60 percent compared to maintaining on-premises solutions.

Manikyam Thukkapuram

Director, Alliances & Engineering at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We chose it because it is more cost-effective than Microsoft SQL.

Michael Taute

Cloud Solutions Architect at Measurement Incorporated

Once you are comfortable and ready to make some commitments, you get about 30 percent saving if you are going with one-year or three-year reservation cost.

Sathish Palanisamy

Staff Data Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

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Valuable Features

Amazon RDS provides scalability, security, and flexibility with multi-engine support and simplified operations for diverse applications.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL offers simplicity, performance, security, scalability, and AI integration, enhancing cloud strategy through robust features.

Amazon RDS provides data encryption using services like KMS, crucial for securing high-sensitive data and meeting compliance requirements such as HIPAA or PCI DSS.

Samuel Ebite

AICE Graduate at alx_africa

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.

Baqir Sajjad

AWS Architect at Virtual University

In some cases, we are using the read replica feature, and it does improve our application performance because we do not allow any downstream system to come to the main storage or main databases and perform a query.

reviewer2592669

Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

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My takeaway as a CTO is that they're comfortable with the security posture, the features, the observability, alerts, and now it integrates into the rest of the Azure landscape.

Daniel Amini

Head of cloud, data, and AI at BJSS

The query analyzers help me find out what's happening in each of the queries.

Gautam Gupta

IT Director at Infosys

If a database has any task that has been interrupted or any connection issue, it will alert LogicMonitor, and we have a centralized panel for all the alerts.

reviewer2777886

System Engineer II at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon RDS

Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)

2nd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Relational Databases Tools (9th)

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Ranking in Database as a Service (DBaaS)

5th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Open Source Databases (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Database as a Service (DBaaS) category, the mindshare of Amazon RDS is 14.8%, down from 25.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Azure Database for PostgreSQL is 3.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Database as a Service (DBaaS) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Amazon RDS	14.8%
Azure Database for PostgreSQL	3.3%
Other	81.9%

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Featured Reviews

reviewer2592669

Director Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Positive experiences with database services, with minor room for feature enhancements observed

I don't really see any disadvantages of Amazon RDS. With Oracle, I think AWS doesn't provide the RAC stability. If you have Oracle installed in your own data centers, you can set up various clusters and we can set up the RACs, but in Amazon RDS, we cannot have the RAC feature of Oracle. They could add that feature. Amazon RDS has limitations regarding RAC. If we talk about installing Oracle in RDS, we cannot have the RAC, but if you deploy Oracle on GCP, then there is probably the RAC feature available. I observed that around two or three years back, but I'm not sure whether they have added the RAC feature in AWS. Amazon RDS is expensive compared to GCP. GCP also has the same features, and although it is quite extensive and feature-rich, I see Amazon RDS as slightly expensive compared to other clouds.

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Sathish Palanisamy

Staff Data Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Improves database performance, supports AI integration, and accelerates customer-focused innovation

Azure Database for PostgreSQL can be improved in the area of elastic capabilities. One of the things we were actively looking for is the elastic feature, which was made a GA at this Ignite event. I am really happy that finally in Azure, we have a product which we can use for elastic clusters. If you are bound with a single server, then you have a vertical limit. Now you do not have any limits. As long as your use case grows, we can grow. The only thing I would maybe be thinking about is we should also allow customers to pick different node sizes for every node inside the elastic eventually. Some nodes do not need that big capacity. So that may be a nice-to-have feature, though it is not a must-have at this point.

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Marketing Services Firm

12%

Educational Organization

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	23

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Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	16

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon RDS?

The product's installation phase is easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon RDS?

The pricing for Amazon RDS is reasonable.

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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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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Database for PostgreSQL?

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing for Azure Database for PostgreSQL is positive; I appreciate it all. The pricing is very cost-effective and stable given that we have many data...

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What needs improvement with Azure Database for PostgreSQL?

Azure Database for PostgreSQL can be improved in ways I'm very curious to explore with Horizon. I'm interested in seeing how the fully enterprise-hardened features change things and where that blur...

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What is your primary use case for Azure Database for PostgreSQL?

My main use cases for Azure Database for PostgreSQL came from a personal project to scratch an itch, and it was the easiest one to go grab. I appreciate how easy PostgreSQL is to get running locall...

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Compared 9% of the time

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Also Known As

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Overview

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient, resizeable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Azure Database for PostgreSQL offers efficient management, robust networking, and seamless Microsoft integration. Known for its strong performance and high satisfaction in enterprise settings, it provides operational efficiency, security, and monitoring.

With features that facilitate Azure integration, easy configuration, and AI integration, Azure Database for PostgreSQL serves as a valuable choice for businesses requiring operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Users benefit from powerful vector capabilities, seamless Microsoft service integration, straightforward management, and user authentication ensuring high satisfaction. Easy optimization, query analysis, and backup operations make it suitable for varied enterprise applications. However, improvements in flexible scaling, cost-effectiveness of monitoring tools, and enhanced integration with Azure OpenAI would enhance its capabilities further.

What Are the Key Features of Azure Database for PostgreSQL?

Robust Networking: Offers seamless Azure integration to optimize cloud resources.
AI Integration: Simplifies incorporating artificial intelligence into databases.
Monitoring Tools: Provides comprehensive tools for efficient database management.
Security: Ensures user data is protected with high-standard security protocols.
Cost-Effectiveness: Delivers efficient operations with budget-friendly solutions.

What Benefits Should Users Consider?

Operational Efficiency: Streamlines database management tasks, reducing workload.
High Satisfaction: Receives positive feedback for its reliable performance in enterprises.
Enterprise Compatibility: Integrates across various Microsoft services for enhanced productivity.
User-Friendly Management: Facilitates straightforward database administration.
Scalability: Supports businesses with potential growth through flexible solutions.

Industries such as healthcare, retail, and finance leverage Azure Database for PostgreSQL for backend solutions, incident reporting, and public information sharing. Managed service providers utilize its strong performance for client needs, while administrators use it for applications like ControlM. Its flexibility supports containerized applications and disaster recovery, ensuring compatibility with diverse environments.

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