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Relational Database Service (RDS)

Relational Database Service (RDS)

- If you have a relational database, like MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server, you can always spin up an EC2 instance and install the database engine directly onto the server. If you're coming from an on-premise environment, this is probably how you already configured your servers and AWS will let you replicate that same environment in the cloud. However, just like your on-premise environment, you may not have responsibilities over the hardware anymore, but you're still responsible for all the configuration, the operating system updates, the database engine updates, the monitoring, setting up failover replication in case your database instance fails, and, you know, the list goes on and on. So to help you out, AWS has a managed platform where you just give them your database and they do all this for you. They manage the EC2 instances, the database backups, the database engine upgrades, even the failover replication. The service…

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