Overview#

AWS Relational Database Services (RDS) is a Amazon Web Services proving a cloud based Relational Database Management System.

AWS Relational Database Services has several supported RDBMS types which run on AWS Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances:

• Amazon Aurora - 6 Cloud Zone and compatible with:
  • MySQL
  • Postgres
• MySQL
• MS SQL
• Postgres
• MariaDB
• Oracle

AWS Relational Database Services supports ReadOnly Replicas which can be promoted to Master.

AWS Relational Database Services is typically placed on a Private AWS Virtual Private Cloud

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Amazon Web Services
• RDS