Understanding Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Learn more about Amazon RDS and get started using the AWS Free Tier at - https://amzn.to/2CMqtwQ. Relational databases are at the heart of your most critical applications, but they can become difficult to manage and operate with high availability as you scale your app. Database administration is resource-intensive, taking time away from building your application. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) simplifies database management by automating time-consuming administration tasks. Amazon RDS gives you the freedom to use your relational database of choice, Including the most popular commercial and open source engines, and Amazon’s relational database built for the cloud: Amazon Aurora. Aurora is MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible, and offers the performance and availability of traditional commercial databases at a fraction of the cost.