Amazon RDS
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a collection of managed services that makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale databases in the cloud. Choose from eight popular engines: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition, RDS for PostgreSQL, RDS for MySQL, RDS for MariaDB, RDS for SQL Server, RDS for Oracle, and RDS for Db2. Deploy on premises with Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts or with elevated access to the underlying operating system and database environment using Amazon RDS Custom.
Benefits of Amazon RDS include:
- Easy to manage: Remove inefficient and time-consuming database administrative tasks without needing to provision infrastructure or maintain software.
- Choice of engines: Deploy and scale the relational database engines of your choice in the cloud or on-premises.
- High availability: Achieve high availability with Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments.
- Operational expertise: Benefit from over a decade of proven operational expertise, security best practices, and innovation in databases born in the cloud.
Included in the Free Tier
- Amazon RDS usage per month: 750 hours on select Single-AZ Instance databases. Usage is aggregated across instance types if using more than one instance. (Available engines: MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server – SQL Server Express Edition only.)
- General Purpose SSD (gp2) storage per month: 20 GB
- Storage for automated database backups per month: 20 GB
Visit the Amazon RDS Pricing Page for more information on its free tier offering.