Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) provides an easy way to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Database options available from AWS include MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Amazon Aurora. With RDS, you can launch a DB instance and get access to a full-featured MySQL database and not worry about managing or administering it. Amazon RDS can significantly reduce effort on common database administration tasks, such as backups and patch management.
Launching a database requires you to select a database engine, license type, an instance class, and storage capacity. The RDS instances are preconfigured for the DB instance you choose. It is equally easy to monitor and ...
