Amazon Relational Database Serviceの評判・口コミ 全24件

What do you dislike?

You don't have much control over specific configurations to your database instance.

What do you like best?

Configuring new instances and accessing them is extremely easy and straightforward.

Recommendations to others considering the product

If you are on a startup or just testing a new app, you don't need much knowledge of how to configure a database server if you use RDS. However, if you are thinking in a more permanent and scalable solution, you should not stay with it for a long time.

What do you dislike?

...except when you want to do anything custom or outside simple use cases. Admin controls are a bit difficult, and getting a true sense of what's on the box can be challenging at times because you have to work within RDS's management limitations.

What do you like best?

Easy to get started and easy to scale. Easy easy easy. Set it and forget, automatic backups, and all of the routine crap is out of the way. Having the option to select multiple database types (mysql, postgres, etc.) means that I don't have to relearn the maintenance strategy around multiple database types. Also, since we use AWS for most of our other systems, being able to plug directly into security groups and existing policy structures makes for one happy system administrator. (And I'm not the systems administrator.)

Recommendations to others considering the product

Take the bad with the good; it's worth it.

What do you dislike?

I dislike how difficult it is to change the PostgreSQL config files.

What do you like best?

I like how it takes much of the hassle of dealing with databases away - backups, redundancy and reliability are all taken care of for you.

Recommendations to others considering the product

If you can, use it. It's worth it as a small team to be able to outsource this one bit of our infrastructure.

What do you dislike?

I had faced some performance issues while using amazon RDS. Although AWS claims that it is more performant that a simple MySQL EC2 instance, it my case it was the opposite. CPU usage and no of DB connections were always very high while using RDS and it couldn't handle the load. In my EC2 sql instance this was not an issue.

What do you like best?

Amazon RDS is completely managed, and it enables us to get started without much prior knowledge of setting up DBs. Even though it can manage everything for you, at the same time, it allows a certain level of customisation and advance tweaking that DB administrators can take advantage of. It automates backups and geographical replication which is a huge plus point.

Recommendations to others considering the product

I will suggest that before considering RDS, try running your own SQL server. It might be cheaper and more performant, but will take a bit of time to setup and manage.