rds

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

- Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) provides an easy way to setup, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. 

- Database options available from AWS include 
	- MySQL.
	- Oracle.
	- MS-SQL Server.
	- PostgreSQL.
	- Amazon Aurora.
	- MariaDB, 
	- Oracle, 
	- DynamoDB.

- Managed relational database service.
- Handles routines database task such as provisioning, patching, backup, recovery, failure detection, and repair.
- Multi-AZ for production applications.
- Allows failover to standby.
- You can launch a DB instance and get access to a full-featured database, while reducing effort on common database administration tasks like backups, patch management, and so on.