Day-26: Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) | Notion

Day-26: Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)

Amazon RDS is a managed relational database service by AWS that handles setup, patching, backup, scaling, and security — so you can focus on using your database instead of maintaining it.

🔹 Supported Engines

MySQL
PostgreSQL
MariaDB
Oracle
SQL Server
Amazon Aurora (AWS-optimized, faster MySQL/PostgreSQL)

🔹 Core Features

Automated Backups — daily & point-in-time restore
Multi-AZ Deployment — high availability & failover support
Read Replicas — improve read performance
Storage Scaling — increase storage without downtime
Encryption & IAM Integration — for security and access control

🔹 RDS vs. Self-Managed Database on EC2