AWS RDS Overview¶

• RDS stands for [[Relational Database]] Service
• It's a manager DB service for DB use SQL as as a query language

• It allows you to create databases in the cloud that are managed by AWS

  • [[PostgreSQL]]
  • [[Oracle]]
  • [[MySQL]]
  • [[MariaDB]]
  • [[Microsoft SQL Server]]
  • AWS Aurora (AWS Proprietary database)

• Must provision an AWS EC2 instance & EBS Volume type and size

• Support for [[Read Replica]]s and [[Multi AZ]]
• Security through IAM, Security Groups, AWS KMS (Key Management Service), [[SSL]] in transit
• [[Backup]] / [[Snapshot]] / [[Point in time restore]] feature
• Managed and Scheduled maintenance
• Monitoring though CloudWatch

• Use case: store relational datasets ([[RDBMS]]/[[OLTP]]), perform queries, transactional inserts / update / delete is available.