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Kiran Rajanna - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect and Cloud Security Consultant at Cgi Deutschland KG
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Reduces operational expenses and provides ease of management
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution has unique features like backup and recovery, and snapshots. It upgrades automatically. The solution offers easy analytics concerning performance metrics. Its reliability and scalability are very good. The tool's most valuable features are disaster recovery, high availability and scalability."
  • "Amazon RDS needs to have an overall dashboard where I can view all the tables in the form of pie charts and Gantt charts. The deployment is complex, and we would like to see automated scripts. It needs to incorporate performance insights."

What is our primary use case?

We migrate to Amazon RDS instead of traditional OLTP databases. We experience the ease of management and reduced operational expenses. 

What is most valuable?

The solution has unique features like backup and recovery, and snapshots. It upgrades automatically. The solution offers easy analytics concerning performance metrics. Its reliability and scalability are very good. The tool's most valuable features are disaster recovery, high availability and scalability. 

What needs improvement?

Amazon RDS needs to have an overall dashboard where I can view all the tables in the form of pie charts and Gantt charts. The deployment is complex, and we would like to see automated scripts. It needs to incorporate performance insights. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution since 2016. 

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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution's scalability is good. 

How are customer service and support?

The solution's customer support is satisfactory. 

How was the initial setup?

Amazon RDS' deployment is complex. 

What was our ROI?

We have seen ROI with the tool's use. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The solution's price is good. 

What other advice do I have?

It would be best if you were careful when picking the RDS instances. Check the network and storage aspects and then decide on the size of the RDS instances. The cost may be high for you if you pick big RDS instances. On the other hand, small RDS instances can bring performance issues. I rate the product a nine out of ten. 

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Sunita Gajurel - PeerSpot reviewer
Student at a university with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
An easy to use tool that helps to find latency
Pros and Cons
  • "The tool is very easy to use and configure."
  • "I would like to see improvements in the tool's automatic restart."

What is our primary use case?

I use the tool to find out latency. 

What is most valuable?

The tool is very easy to use and configure. 

What needs improvement?

I would like to see improvements in the tool's automatic restart. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for two to three months. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The tool is stable. 

How are customer service and support?

The tool's support is nice. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

How was the initial setup?

The tool's initial setup is straightforward. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I would rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten. 

What other advice do I have?

I would rate the solution a seven out of ten. 

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Manager at Deloitte
Real User
Top 20
Good support, easy to deploy, and scalable
Pros and Cons
  • "Encryption is the most valuable feature."
  • "Amazon has a policy of automatically restarting the server every seven days."

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution to encrypt our data.

What is most valuable?

Encryption is the most valuable feature.

What needs improvement?

To save costs, I need to shut down my server. However, Amazon has a policy of automatically restarting the server every seven days. This means that I have to repeatedly shut down the server to avoid incurring extra expenses.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for almost eight years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is scalable.

How are customer service and support?

The technical support is good and easy to use. The support will answer our questions even if the issue is not related to their service.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward. The deployment takes around ten minutes.

What about the implementation team?

We help our customers implement the solution in-house.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The price of Amazon RDS is expensive. We pay for the monitoring and the uploading.

What other advice do I have?

I give the solution a nine out of ten.

The solution supports all organization sizes.

Amazon RDS is utilized globally, but in certain regions, such as China, Ali Cloud is predominantly utilized due to specific requirements and restrictions.

Amazon RDS is a viable solution, however, storage and monitoring costs can add up significantly. Therefore, organizations should be mindful of these expenses and budget accordingly.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Public Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Adalberto Barbosa Da Costa Lobato - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solutions Architect at gwcloud.company
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
A highly scalable and affordable solution that provides ease of management and a high return on investment
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution’s scalability, usability, and availability are valuable to us."
  • "The product must add more older versions of the database engines."

What is our primary use case?

We use the solution to host databases.

How has it helped my organization?

The product provides ease of management. We do not have to worry about the database. We just worry about the data. It is really convenient.

What is most valuable?

The solution’s scalability, usability, and availability are valuable to us. It’s a really good solution.

What needs improvement?

The product must add more older versions of the database engines.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for six years. I am using the latest version of the product.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the product’s stability a ten out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I rate the tool’s scalability a ten out of ten. It is really, really scalable.

How was the initial setup?

The initial deployment was straightforward. We can do it via CLI, or we can do it pretty much like a Windows machine. We can just click on the next button when prompted and click on finish at the end.

What was our ROI?

We see a 100% return on investment.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The cost varies depending on our use and our database engine. RDS is the database, and AWS manages it for us. It is cheaper to host on a cloud machine ourselves. RDS increases the cost because it manages the database. It’s really, really good. The solution is fairly priced.

What other advice do I have?

I use the solution every day. People who are considering the solution must use it. Forget about the price. It is way better to use RDS than to host a database ourselves. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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General Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 20
Lessens the burden on users by saving a lot of time and resources needed to manage a database
Pros and Cons
  • "The product's initial setup phase is totally easy."
  • "As a customer of Amazon RDS, you don't have super-user privileges, and that is the only drawback where improvements are required."

What is our primary use case?

I use mostly the Postgres incarnation of Amazon RDS. Basically, Amazon RDS is a cheap database that is totally self-contained and self-managed, and that is its good part. There is also the downfall associated with the tool since you don't have you don't have root privileges or super-user privileges on Amazon RDS, so there are certain things you cannot do. Sometimes, when I really needed a database that I could have absolute control over, I used to spin AWS VMs and EC2 machines and load Postgres on that machine so that I could become a super-user. Amazon RDS is very useful for quick and dirty or for very established solutions where you don't have to develop or change a lot. Basically, you can you can load your data into Amazon RDS. In my data analytics space, I see Amazon RDS as an ancillary product to Redshift, which is the real workhorse in terms of big data, data warehousing, and analytics.

What is most valuable?

I don't manage my database with Amazon RDS. AWS manages Amazon RDS. Sometimes, it is enough, and I don't need to do low-level stuff, and I can use Amazon RDS. Suppose I really need to tweak and do low-level stuff, low-level in the sense of being very close to the system, and I need super-user privileges. In that case, Amazon RDS is out of the picture because AWS doesn't allow you to have super-user privileges in Amazon RDS. The use case for me with Amazon RDS is a cheap and dirty database that I can use when I don't need to do a lot of tweaking. When I need tweaking, I create my own instance of the Postgres, and I can become a super-user and do whatever I like.

What needs improvement?

As a customer of Amazon RDS, you don't have super-user privileges, and that is the only drawback where improvements are required.

I never tested the scalability of the product. I was scaling it up to two, three, and four gigabytes, and it was fine. I don't know how it fares when we are loading hundreds of gigabytes of terabytes of data. Redshift can manage huge amounts of data, but I don't know about Amazon RDS. I suspect Amazon RDS can handle huge amounts of data because Postgres is very capable of doing so. Amazon RDS in AWS is simply an umbrella. Underneath Amazon RDS, you can choose to implement MySQL or other databases. The implementation I always chose was Postgres.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon RDS since 2017. My company has a partnership with Amazon.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

AWS is a stable environment. Postgres is a very stable database. AWS implementation of Postgres, as far as I know, is very reliable. I never had any issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I never tested the scalability of Amazon RDS since it was, for me, a stepping stone toward having real analytics in Redshift. Basically, Amazon RDS was just a collector. I was collecting structured data into Amazon RDS, or if the data was unstructured, like in emails, I was using software to make sense of the email and then store the content of the email relationally in Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS was just a stepping stone, a part of the pipeline, just in order to collect the data momentarily so that the data could eventually be transferred across to Redshift.

How are customer service and support?

The tool's technical support depends on your service level agreements with Amazon. If you are on the cheap side, obviously, they tend not to attend to your issues immediately, and I can understand that. If you pay a premium support fee, I don't know how Amazon treats you since I was never in a position to pay a premium support fee. Overall, I was never disappointed with the tool's support. I didn't face a lot of issues, so I never tested how good the support was because I have 35 years of experience in managing data. I tend to solve my own issues by myself.

How was the initial setup?

The product's initial setup phase is totally easy. You go to a web page, configure your instance with checkboxes and drop-down list boxes, see what you want, see what your needs are, and what you are prepared to pay, compile a form with ten or fifteen fields, click on submit, and Amazon RDS is created for you.

What was our ROI?

Going from on-premise and hybrid into a complete Amazon RDS solution obviously frees up the need for DBAs. The fact that AWS manages everything for you means you don't need a lot of time and resources to manage the database. So you can cut your yearly salary for the DBAs in your company. You need to consider all the cloud costs as well. I believe it is cheaper to go with Amazon RDS rather than hosting Postgres instances in-house or on-premise. I know that AWS is becoming expensive. I really don't know where the breakeven point is between having your own Postgres instance that you manage yourself outside the cloud. Basically, there are three options. You manage your Postgres on-premise. You use an EC2 VM in AWS, and you install Postgres on it. You have the benefits of AWS scalability and security, but you still have your control, and you become a super-user on the database. The third option is to go with Amazon RDS, after which you lose control of your database, but you don't worry about managing redundancy and creating high-availability solutions because everything is done for you. I believe it is the best feature of RDS, which is total uptime guaranteed by AWS. You don't need to think about how to implement, test, and manage a high availability redundancy kind of solution, as everything is included in the package.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I don't know if the solution is cheap or expensive in comparison with competitors since AWS is the only cloud provider I tried so far. I connected some Azure Blob Storage to the instance running the Redshift instance. AWS is becoming pretty expensive because cheap or absolutely free services have become paid services. Amazon RDS is not an expensive product, but Amazon's ecosystem is becoming increasingly expensive.

What other advice do I have?

In my experience, there is no need to maintain the product. I didn't try the tool's scalability. I was using the TRUNCATE TABLE command in every other ETL. TRUNCATE TABLE means I empty the data every time I load it. It was just a relational storage mechanism, basically, for a few gigabytes of data daily. Each ETL on a daily basis in the pipeline is used to erase what was there for the previous jobs and reload Amazon RDS, and when the loading in Amazon RDS was complete, there was another process in the pipeline that we used to bring the data across to Redshift. I never used it in a very sophisticated manner.

I have not tested the AI capabilities with the product. I know that a lot of the competition, whether inter or intra-cloud, is fierce nowadays, and AI solutions are popping up everywhere. I simply haven't had the chance yet to test the AI capabilities in AWS. It will be my next project.

The trade-off is between control and peace of mind. If you want control, and obviously, you cannot choose RDS. If you want peace of mind and you don't want to think about backing up the database or creating a high availability policy around it, then definitely go for Amazon RDS. If you have some, if you are a startup, for instance, testing new things, I wouldn't go for Amazon RDS simply because you don't have control over the database. If you are an established company and want to move from on-premise to the cloud, you have the once-off migration task from your on-premise into the cloud, and everything has already been concretized. The database that supports the application is already well-established. If you are not introducing new features or experimenting with the product to introduce new features, then Amazon RDS is a good choice.

I rate the tool a seven to eight out of ten.

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Manager, Enterprise Service at Hang Seng Bank
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Top 20
Helps to move databases form place to place and is easy to deploy and maintain
Pros and Cons
  • "Amazon RDS is easy to maintain and easy to deploy."
  • "The running cost could be improved."

What is our primary use case?

The solution helps us to move databases from on-premises to other areas. 

How has it helped my organization?

Amazon RDS has helped in reducing the median cost for on-prem services.

What is most valuable?

Amazon RDS is easy to maintain and easy to deploy.

What needs improvement?

The running cost could be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for one year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a stable solution. I rate it eight out of ten. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution's scalability depends on the application. There are no fixed users. I plan to increase the usage of the solution. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Previously, I used Oracle SQL but switched to Amazon RDS because it's easy to manage and easy to set.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is easy. For the deployment, one has to prepare the pipeline and set up the security configuration. The complete deployment takes a couple of days. Three software engineers are required in the deployment process. I rate the setup an eight out of ten.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The solution is expensive.

What other advice do I have?

I would advise others to use the solution as it is easy to deploy, but they will need to take care of the running cost. 

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten. 

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Jay Vekaria - PeerSpot reviewer
Linux System Administrator at Ergode
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
A well-managed and stable service while also providing scalability
Pros and Cons
  • "Amazon RDS is quite a well-managed and stable service...The initial setup was very easy."
  • "There are a few aspects of database management that have room for improvement. There are a few parameters in the solution that are a bit unclear at our end as it's not understandable."

What is our primary use case?

We use it in our organization since it is a managed database service. So we can manage our database within UAM.


How has it helped my organization?

My company decided to use the solution since it is a managed database service that provides control along with a UI for our databases.


What is most valuable?

The performance insight is a valuable feature of the solution since it gives us information on how much data has been and which queries have been taking a long time. Also, it shows the percentage of bin select queries while providing information on how insert queries work, along with the time required for operation and insertion while indicating the performance in sales.


What needs improvement?

There are a few aspects of database management that have room for improvement. There are a few parameters in the solution that are a bit unclear at our end as it's not understandable. So, for queries, they show them as other stuff which is not clearly mentioned. For the legends which they are giving, there should be some other help that could help us with the legends on the graphs.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Amazon RDS for three years. Since it's an AWS service, no one looks after the version. I am a customer of the solution.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It's a stable product.


What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Amazon RDS has been used for major applications, and multiple people work on the applications. So, around 600 people are using RDS to work on applications.


How are customer service and support?

There is no specific technical support for the solution. I rate the support a six out of ten.


How would you rate customer service and support?

Neutral

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was very easy.

What other advice do I have?

Everyone should definitely use RDS because it's the next revolutionary solution in the market. A managed database is something that is required.

Amazon RDS is quite a well-managed and stable service, but there are a few parameters that are still unclear from their end.

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.


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BharathKumar2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Administrator at Cartrack
Real User
It gives us the ability to select as many tools, replicas, regions, and zones as we want
Pros and Cons
  • "Amazon RDS gives us the ability to select as many tools, replicas, regions, and zones as we want."
  • "Some of the features will not be there. For example, some on-premises things we want to set up will not be supported there. There are some challenges that they are fixing."

What is our primary use case?

We have on-prem servers and our database is hosted in the cloud on Amazon RDS. Everything is automated there, like setting up backups and replication. We have around 40 persons using RDS.

What is most valuable?

Amazon RDS gives us the ability to select as many tools, replicas, regions, and zones as we want.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used Amazon RDS for six or seven years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

RDS is stable. A cloud solution is always stable, and RDS servers are solid.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Amazon RDS is highly scalable. It is much simpler to scale up compared to an on-premise solution where you need to buy new hardware and migrate all the data. Ifwe need more capacity, there is a symbol that you can click on to upgrade your hardware. 

If you want one more server in a different region, you can spin it up and everything is done on the cloud. You can just select what you need and go, whether you're going to downgrade or upgrade to system type TX for whatever configuration you want.

How are customer service and support?

Amazon support is good, but we've only communicated with them via email so far. We email support when we have questions, and they've always come up with the proper solution.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Before Amazon, we had MySQL and PostgreSQL, but it's not like we switched We still have on-premise solutions and some things in the cloud. Most of our stuff is still on-prem. It depends on if it's a critical application that is heavily used, so you don't have downtime.

How was the initial setup?

Installation is straightforward. You choose your database for RDS, like MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc., and select the distance type. It takes a maximum of five minutes time to select and set up the system. Our servers can be up and running in 10 to 15 minutes, and data migration took about an hour.

What about the implementation team?

We have several in-house teams with separate databases, so they usually take care of it for us. I worked on some databases. We have a different method for RDS. One stacked, so we build our own scripts and publish them in the stack.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Amazon RDS is a little costly, but it also reduces the number of full-time employees needed. We require fewer system admins or DBS because RDS reduces our workload. 

It's pay as you go. Once you are using it, you will get support. You don't need to buy a yearly license to get support. If we deployed our server there, we would get support from them.

What other advice do I have?

I rate Amazon RDS nine out of 10. I recommend it. Cost is the only issue. RDS is one of the best choices if you need scalability and reliability, but you're not worried about the cost.

Some of the features will not be there. For example, some on-premises things we want to set up will not be supported there. There are some challenges there that they are fixing. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud
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