Relational Database Service

AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) provides a way to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud. Currently, RDS supports MySQL, Postgres, Aurora, MariaDB, Oracle, and the SQL Server database engine. RDS helps to speed up the development process by allowing quick access to the full featured database engine without the need to install or configure the software. As part of the RDS service, AWS takes care of backups and storing the backups for a configurable retention period and enables point in time recovery. By utilizing the multi-AZ setup, you can achieve a highly available and fault tolerant database. RDS also allows you create the read replicas for some of the database engine, which helps to ease the burden on the read intensive database. AWS also takes care of the patch and security management of the RDS instance, which eases the burden of ongoing database administration.