Using Amazon RDS

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a scalable relational database service in the cloud. Supported database engines are MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL compatible Amazon Aurora engine. No changes are required in your application code to connect to RDS, that is, the code you are already using to connect to databases can be used with Amazon RDS.

Amazon manages the infrastructure provisioning, installing, and maintaining the database software. Database instances using Amazon RDS's MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and Oracle engines can be provisioned with General Purpose (SSD) storage, Provisioned IOPS (SSD) storage, or Magnetic storage. If your application needs predictable and consistent I/O performance, ...

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