AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) is a fully managed relational database service from Amazon. RDS makes it easier for enterprises and developers who want to use a relational database in the cloud without investing a lot of time and resources in managing the environment. AWS RDS supports six database engines: AmazonAurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. It provides easy-to-use, cost-effective, and scalable relational databases in the cloud.
The advantages of Amazon RDS are as follows:
- It's a fully managed service that automatically manages backups, software and OS patching, automatic failover, and recovery.
- It also allows taking a manual backup of the database as a snapshot. Snapshots of a database can be used to restore a database as and when required.
- RDS provides fine-grained access control with the help of AWS IAM.
AWS RDS does not provide root access to the RDS instance. In short, RDS does not allow the user to...