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Relational Database Service (RDS)

Last updated May 16, 2025, generated by Sumble

What is Relational Database Service (RDS)?

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a distributed relational database service by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is a web service running 'in the cloud' designed to simplify the setup, operation, and scaling of a relational database for use in applications. RDS supports various database engines such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and Amazon Aurora.

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What other technologies are related to Relational Database Service (RDS)?

Relational Database Service (RDS) Competitor Technologies

AWS DynamoDB

AWS DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service, offering an alternative to relational databases for certain use cases (e.g., high-velocity data, schema flexibility). While different database types, they compete for selection based on application requirements.

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AWS Redshift

AWS Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. It is a competitor as it provides similar data storage and analysis capabilities as relational databases, although optimized for different use cases (data warehousing vs. transactional workloads).

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Relational Database Service (RDS) Complementary Technologies

AWS Athena

AWS Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. It can be used to query data from RDS instances that has been offloaded to S3.

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AWS Glue

AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy to prepare and load data for analytics. Can be used to prepare data for ingestion into RDS, or for moving data out of RDS for analysis elsewhere.

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AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service. Can be used for event-driven tasks triggered by changes in the database or for processing data before it is stored in RDS.

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