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Understanding Amazon RDS: A Managed Database Service by AWS
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is one of AWS’s most powerful services for managing databases in the cloud. If you’ve ever considered setting up a database, you may have faced the complexity of provisioning, managing, and scaling your database. With RDS, Amazon simplifies much of this process by offering a managed solution that automates many of the tedious tasks associated with running a database.
What is Amazon RDS?
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) is a fully managed database service that supports several widely used database engines that rely on SQL as a query language, such as:
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- Oracle
- Microsoft SQL Server
- IBM DB2
- Amazon Aurora
This service is designed to allow developers and businesses to set up, operate, and scale databases in the cloud effortlessly, while AWS handles many of the tasks traditionally required when managing a database on your own infrastructure.
