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'''Amazon Relational Database Service''' (or '''Amazon RDS''') is a distributed [[relational database]] service by [[Amazon Web Services]] (AWS).<ref>[http://aws.amazon.com/rds/ Amazon RDS, Cloud Relational Database Service: MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server]. Aws.amazon.com (2010-07-28). Retrieved on 2013-08-09.</ref> It is a [[web service]] running [[Cloud computing|"in the cloud"]] designed to simplify the setup, operation, and [[Scalability|scaling]] of a relational database for use in applications.<ref>[http://nerds.airbnb.com/mysql-in-the-cloud-at-airbnb MySQL in the cloud at Airbnb - Airbnb Engineering]. Nerds.airbnb.com (2010-11-15). Retrieved on 2013-08-09.</ref> Administration processes like patching the database software, backing up databases and enabling [[point-in-time recovery]] are managed automatically.<ref>[http://aws.amazon.com/rds/amazon-rds-introduced/ Amazon RDS, Introduced] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929183431/http://aws.amazon.com/rds/amazon-rds-introduced/ |date=2011-09-29 }}. Aws.amazon.com (2010-01-01). Retrieved on 2013-08-09.</ref> Scaling storage and compute resources can be performed by a single [[API]] call to the AWS control plane on-demand. AWS does not offer an [[Secure Shell|SSH]] connection to the underlying virtual machine as part of the managed service.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 1, 2013 |title=ssh - How do you access an Amazon RDS instance from a chromebook? |url=https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17986232/how-do-you-access-an-amazon-rds-instance-from-a-chromebook |titleaccess-date=sshOctober -19, How2019 do you access an Amazon RDS instance from a chromebook?|website=Stack Overflow |language=en-US}}</ref>

==TimelineHistory==

Amazon RDS was first released on 2226 October 2009, supporting [[MySQL]] databases.<ref name="auto"/><ref>[http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=2942&categoryID=291 Release: Amazon Relational Database Service : Release Notes : Amazon Web Services]{{Dead link|date=October 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Developer.amazonwebservices.com. Retrieved on 2013-08-09.</ref><ref>Vogels, Werner. (2009-10-26) [http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2009/10/amazon_relational_database_service.html Expanding the Cloud: The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)]. All Things Distributed. Retrieved on 2013-08-09.</ref> This was followed by support for [[Oracle Database]] in June 2011,<ref>{{cite web |date=2011-05-24 |title=Oracle database available as a service on Amazon AWS (RDS) |url=http://www.beyondoracle.com/2011/05/24/oracle-database-service-amazon-aws-rds/ |date=2011-05-24|accessurl-datestatus=2014-04-13|website=beyondoracle.comlive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414000608/http://www.beyondoracle.com/2011/05/24/oracle-database-service-amazon-aws-rds/ |archive-date=2014-04-14 |access-date=2014-04-13 |website=beyondoracle.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=AWS Announces Relational Database Service For Oracle|url=http://www.firstbiz.com/biztech/aws-announces-relational-database-service-for-oracle-12330.html|access-date=2014-04-13|website=firstbiz.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413234027/http://www.firstbiz.com/biztech/aws-announces-relational-database-service-for-oracle-12330.html|archive-date=2014-04-13}}</ref> [[Microsoft SQL Server]] in May 2012,<ref>[http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/05/net-support-for-aws-elastic-beanstalk-amazon-rds-for-sql-server-.html Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon RDS for SQL Server and .NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103035539/http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/05/net-support-for-aws-elastic-beanstalk-amazon-rds-for-sql-server-.html |date=2013-01-03 }}. Aws.typepad.com (2012-05-08). Retrieved on 2013-08-09.</ref> [[PostgreSQL]] in November 2013,<ref>{{cite news |author=Williams |first=Alex |date=14 November 2013 |author=Alex Williams |title=PostgreSQL Now Available On Amazon's Relational Database Service |language=en-US |publisher=TechCrunch |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/14/postgressql-now-available-on-amazons-relational-database-service/ |access-date=October 25, 2020}}</ref> and [[MariaDB]] (a fork of MySQL) in October 2015,<ref>{{cite web|title=Amazon Web Services Announces Two New Database Services – AWS Database Migration Service and Amazon RDS for MariaDB |publisher=MarketWatch, Inc |url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-web-services-announces-two-new-database-services-aws-database-migration-service-and-amazon-rds-for-mariadb-2015-10-07/|date=2015-10-07|access-date=2015-10-23|archive-date=2018-07-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705004137/https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-web-services-announces-two-new-database-services-aws-database-migration-service-and-amazon-rds-for-mariadb-2015-10-07|url-status=dead}}</ref> and an additional 80 features during 2017.<ref name="ama aws">{{Cite web |last=Barr |first=Jeff |date=February 12, 2018 |title=Amazon Relational Database Service – Looking Back at 2017 |url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-relational-database-service-looking-back-at-2017/|title=Amazon Relational Database Service – Looking Back at 2017|access-date=FebruaryNovember 1229, 2018 |website=Amazon Web Services |language=en-US}}</ref>

In November 2014 AWS announced [[Aurora database analytics engine|Amazon Aurora]], a MySQL-compatible database offering enhanced [[high availability]] and performance,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barr |first=Jeff |date=November 12, 2014 |title=Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS |url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/highly-scalable-mysql-compat-rds-db-engine/|title=Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS|access-date=NovemberJuly 1219, 20142017 |website=Amazon Web Services |language=en-US}}</ref> and in October 2017 a PostgreSQL-compatible database offering<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-amazon-aurora-with-postgresql-compatibility/|title=Now Available – Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility|date=October 24, 2017|website=Amazon Web Services}}</ref><ref name="ama aws"/> was launched.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/|title=Amazon Aurora – Relational Database Built for the Cloud - AWS|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}}</ref>

In March 2019 AWS announced support of PostgreSQL 11 in RDS,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/postgresql11-now-supported-in-amazon-rds/|title=PostgreSQL 11 now Supported in Amazon RDS|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}}</ref> five months after official release.

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===Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) deployment===

In May 2010 Amazon announced Multi-Availability Zone deployment support.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/05/18/announcing-multi-az-deployments-for-amazon-rds/|title=Announcing Multi-AZ Deployments for Amazon RDS|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}}</ref> Amazon RDS Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) allows users to automatically provision and maintain a synchronous physical or logical "standby" [[Database replication|replica]], depending on database engine, in a different Availability Zone<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/|title=Amazon RDS Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) - Amazon Web Services (AWS)|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}}</ref> (independent infrastructure in a physically separate ___location). Multi-AZ database instance can be developed at creation time or modified to run as a Multi-AZ deployment later. Multi-AZ deployments aim to provide enhanced [[Availability (system)|availability]] and [[Durability (database systems)|data durability]] for MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQL Server<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/rds/details/multi-az/|title=Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Deployments|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}}</ref> instances and are targeted for production environments.<ref>[http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2011/public/schedule/detail/19732 Replication for Availability & Durability with MySQL and Amazon RDS: O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2011 - O'Reilly Conferences, April 11 - 14, 2011, Santa Clara, CA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150523232753/http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2011/public/schedule/detail/19732 |date=2015-05-23 }}. En.oreilly.com. Retrieved on 2013-08-09.</ref> In the event of planned database maintenance or unplanned service disruption, Amazon RDS automatically [[failover|fails over]] to the up-to-date standby, allowing database operations to resume without administrative intervention.

Multi-AZ RDS instances are optional and have a cost associated with them. When creating a RDS instance, the user is asked if they would like to use a Multi-AZ RDS instance. In Multi-AZ RDS deployments backups are done in the standby instance so I/O activity is not suspended any time but youusers may experience elevated latencies for a few minutes during backups.<ref name="ama rds">{{Cite web|url=https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_WorkingWithAutomatedBackups.html|title=Working With Backups - Amazon Relational Database Service|website=docs.aws.amazon.com}}</ref>

===Read replicas===

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===RDS costs===

Amazon RDS instances are priced very similarly to [[Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud]] (EC2). RDS is charged per hour and comes in two packages: On-Demand DB Instances<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing/|title=Amazon RDS Pricing - Amazon Web Services|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}}</ref> and Reserved DB Instances.<ref name="auto1"/> On-Demand Instances are at an ongoing hourly usage rate. Reserved DBRDS Instances requireare anoffered upin 1-front,year oneand 3-timeyear feeterms and ininclude turnno-upfront, providepartial-upfront, and all-upfront payment options. Currently, AWS does not offer a discount3-year onreservation thewith hourlyan usage"no-upfront" chargepayment foroption.<ref>{{Cite thatweb instance|title=A Complete Guide to AWS Reservations {{!}} Strake |url=https://eightlake.com/aws-rds-cost-analysis |access-date=2024-01-26 |website=eightlake.com |language=en}}</ref>

Apart from the hourly cost of running the RDS instance, users are charged for the amount of storage provisioned, data transfers and input and output operations performed. AWS have introduced Provisioned Input and Output Operations, in which the user can define how many IO per second are required by their application. IOPS can contribute significantly to the total cost of running the RDS instance.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing/|title=Pricing|website=amazon.com|publisher=[[Amazon.com]]|access-date=2014-04-13}}</ref>

Amazon RDS also has an Aurora Serverless option. The serverless pricing unit is dollars per ACU hour. ACU stands for 'Aurora Capacity Limit'. This option is designed for customers that need to dramatically scale workloads.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AWS Cost Analysis: Amazon RDS Costs {{!}} Strake |url=https://getstrake.com/blog/aws-cost-analysis-amazon-rds-costs |access-date=2023-02-28 |website=getstrake.com |language=en}}</ref>

As part of the AWS Free Tier, the Amazon RDS Free Tier helps new AWS customers get started with a managed database service in the cloud for free. You can use the Amazon RDS Free Tier to develop new applications, test existing applications, or simply gain hands-on experience with Amazon RDS.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/rds/free/|title=Amazon RDS Free Tier – Amazon Web Services (AWS)|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-08}}</ref>

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===Operation===

Database instances can be managed from the [[Amazon Web Services|AWS]] Management Console, using the Amazon RDS APIs and using [[aws cli|AWS CLI]].<ref name="ama web1"/> Since 1 June 2017,<ref name="stop">{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/amazon-rds-supports-stopping-and-starting-of-database-instances/|title=Amazon RDS Supports Stopping and Starting of Database Instances|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}}</ref> you can stop AWS RDS instances from AWS Management Console or AWS CLI for 7 days at a time. After 7 days, it will be automatically started,<ref name="stop"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_StopInstance.html|title=Stopping an Amazon RDS DB Instance Temporarily - Amazon Relational Database Service|website=docs.aws.amazon.com}}</ref> and since September 2018 RDS instances can be protected from accidental deletion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/amazon-rds-now-provides-database-deletion-protection/|title=Amazon RDS Now Provides Database Deletion Protection|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}}</ref> Increase DB space is supported, but not decrease allocated space.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_PIOPS.StorageTypes.html#USER_PIOPS.ModifyingExisting|title=Working with Storage for Amazon RDS DB Instances - Amazon Relational Database Service|website=docs.aws.amazon.com}}</ref> Additionally there is at least a six-hour period where new allocation cannot be done.

==Database instance types==

As of August 2020, Amazon RDS supports 82 DB instance types - to support different types of workloads:<ref>{{cite web|title=Amazon RDS Instance Comparison|url=http://rdsinstances.info/|access-date=2016-07-13|archive-date=2016-07-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160718191418/http://rdsinstances.info/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Amazon RDS Instances|url=https://aws.amazon.com/rds/instance-types/|access-date=2020-08-10|publisher=[Amazon.com]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Amazon RDS Previous Instances|url=https://aws.amazon.com/rds/previous-generation/|access-date=2016-07-13|publisher=[Amazon.com]}}</ref>

* General Purpose: 31 instances

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|db.r3.8xlarge|| 244 GB|| {{N/A}} || 32 cores|| 10 Gigabit

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==See also==

*[[Amazon Aurora]]

*[[Amazon_DocumentDB|Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)]]

*[[Amazon DynamoDB]]

*[[Amazon Redshift]]

==References==

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