Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a cloud database service that is easy to set up, operate, and scale. Amazon RDS helps to reduce database administrative tasks such as version upgrade, backups, restoration, and software patching. It is cost efficient and we can automate the scaling of the database size and hardware.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Supported databases
- DB instances
Amazon RDS offers managed service for database engines, management, and administration. Amazon RDS is exposed over a web service interface where we can easily create and manage databases. The Amazon RDS managed service ensures that the user gets fast performance, security for database access, scalability, and high availability. With this, we don't need to deal with database infrastructure management, backup strategies, software patching, or any other database administrative tasks, so that the user can focus on the application life cycle. Amazon RDS offers a wide...