Editing Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS)

[[wikipedia:Amazon Relational Database Service]] ([[AWS timeline|Oct 2009]]) <ref>https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2009/10/27/introducing-amazon-relational-database-service/</ref> is a distributed relational database service by [[Amazon Web Services]] (AWS), also included in the [[AWS Free Tier]] option.
* Homepage: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/
* Pricing:
** [[MariaDB]]: <ref>https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_MariaDB.html</ref> https://aws.amazon.com/rds/mariadb/pricing/
** [[PostgreSQL]]: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/pricing/
** [[Aurora]]
*** [[Aurora PostgreSQL]]: price calculator: aprox 63 USD/month https://calculator.aws/#/createCalculator/AuroraPostgreSQL
Regarding possible cost while learning AWS RDS, just be aware that you will be able to stop AWS RDS instances from AWS Management Console or AWS CLI for 7 days period at a time, but after those 7 days, it will be automatically started by AWS.<ref>https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/amazon-rds-supports-stopping-and-starting-of-database-instances/</ref> <ref>https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_StopInstance.html</ref>

== Features ==
* [[Storage autoscaling]] (Jun 2019) and hot [[storage increase]]
* [[Performance Insights]] (Jun 2018): <code>[[aws pi]]</code>
* [[Amazon RDS Backup and Restore|Backups]] and [[AWS RDS Snapshots|snapshots]]
* [[Database Migration Services]]
* [[Amazon RDS Read Replicas|Read Replicas]] (Oct 2010)

== Creation ==
[[You can create different types of DBs using]]:
:1) [[AWS Management Console]]
:2) [[AWS CLI]]: <code>[[aws ec2 run-instances]]</code>
:3) [[AWS Cloudformation]]: <code>[[AWS::RDS::DBInstance]]</code>
:4) Terraform: <code>[[Terraform resource: aws_db_instance|aws_db_instance]]</code>


== Timeline ==
Amazon RDS was first released on 22 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|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|accessdate=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|url-status=dead|df=}}</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 |date={{date|2013-11-14}} |author=Alex Williams |title=PostgreSQL Now Available On Amazon's Relational Database Service |publisher=TechCrunch |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/14/postgressql-now-available-on-amazons-relational-database-service/ }}</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|accessdate=2015-10-23}}</ref> and an additional 80 features during 2017.<ref name="ama aws">{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-relational-database-service-looking-back-at-2017/|title=Amazon Relational Database Service – Looking Back at 2017|date=February 12, 2018|website=Amazon Web Services}}</ref>

In November 2014 AWS announced [[Amazon Aurora]], a MySQL-compatible database offering enhanced [[high availability]] and performance,<ref>{{Cite web|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|date=November 12, 2014|website=Amazon Web Services}}</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.

Nov 2021 https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/readable-standby-instances-in-amazon-rds-multi-az-deployments-a-new-high-availability-option

March 2022 Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports M6i and R6i instances: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/03/amazon-rds-sql-server-supports-m6i-r6i-instances/

== AWS CLI and CloudFormation ==
* <code>[[aws rds describe-db-instances]]</code>
* [[CloudFormation]]: <code>[[AWS::RDS::DBInstance]]</code>

== [[RDS FAQs]] ==

== Activities ==
* Read https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/amazon-rds
* Read [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-relational-database-service-looking-back-at-2017/ Amazon Relational Database Service – Looking Back at 2017]
* Read: https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws#rds

== News ==
* https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-rds-multi-az-db-cluster/
* [[AWS timeline|Mar 2021]] [[Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Cross-Region Automated Backups]] <ref>https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/03/amazon-rds-for-postgresql-supports-managed-disaster-recovery-dr-with-cross-region-automated-backups/?nc1=h_ls</ref>
* [[RDS storage autoscaling]]<ref>https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/rds-storage-auto-scaling/</ref> (Jun 2019)
* [[Amazon RDS Proxy]] (Jun 2020)
* [[Amazon RDS Performance Insights]] (2018)
* [[Amazon RDS Read Replicas]] (2010)<ref>https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-rds-announcing-read-replicas/</ref>

== Related terms ==
* <code>[[DataFileRead]]</code>, <code>[[rds_superuser]]</code>
* [[Amazon RDS Backup and Restore]]: [[Retention period]]
* [[Amazon RDS IAM Authentication]]
* [[AWS CloudWatch: RDS]]
* [[AWS CloudFormation templates]]: https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-templates-us-west-2/RDS_Snapshot_On_Delete.template
* [[Terraform resource]]: <code>[[Terraform resource: aws_db_instance|aws_db_instance]]</code>
* <code>[[aws rds describe-db-engine-versions]]</code>
* [[Multi-AZ]] and [[Multi-Region]]
* [[Average Active Sessions (AAS)]]
* [[Amazon RDS query editor for Aurora Serverless]]

== See Also ==
* {{aws rds}}
* {{RDS}}

[[Category:Amazon RDS]]
[[Category:AWS RDS]]
[[Category:Databases]]
[[Category:RDS]]

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