RDS Introduction
“Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups. It frees you to focus on your applications so you can give them the fast performance, high availability, security and compatibility they need.”
So AWS RDS or Relational Database service is a service for running your databases. You can run the following databases on it:
- Amazon Aurora
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- Oracle
- Microsoft SQL Server
But why another service? Can’t we just run it on EC2?
Well, it allows you to easily set up, patch and back up your database. All you need to do then is connect to your database, setup the schema and start executing your queries.
Next up, let’s create a database. See you there! 👋