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

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.

What do you dislike?

* No support for older versions. Some of our legacy projects use older MySQL and SQL versions which RDS does not support.

* Sometimes its security measures make things more complicated. Particularly in dev, we from time to time need to access RDS in VPC directly or query from another VPC. A lot of things to configure if that happens. And we put ourselves into another related trouble - in order to create a set of "structured" security group rules, our security groups especially RDS SGs are unnecessarily complicated.

What do you like best?

* The freedom to choose what type of db you need. We are using MySQL, SQL, and Aurora.

* The ease of using RDS. Never need to maintain it.

* Security. When the MySQL RDS is launched within a VPC, it's a lot more secure. But it's both a pro and a con (see below).

Recommendations to others considering the product

If you:

* need to support an array of db types (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)

* need scalability now or down on the road

* need worry-free services

AWS RDS is like a no-brainer for you.

However, I would consider using a different solution if you:

* only need a db for solo development

* don't want to spend more than you need

* are not familiar with the AWS tech stack

What do you dislike?

The way they have the configuration options set up can be a hassle.

What do you like best?

The ability to have a database server managed for you with the minor updates. The ability to make and save snapshots at will and nightly is great.

What do you dislike?

Steep learning curve for first time configuration.

What do you like best?

Very low maintenance and easily configurable security.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Also consider DynamoDB, the managed NoSQL database from AWS. NoSQL has allowed incredibly rapid and easy growth in some of our recent projects. NoSQL is not the same as a traditional SQL database, but may provide an even better platform for agile systems.

What do you dislike?

I like RDS because it removes a lot of the admin tasks involved with running your own in-house servers.

What do you like best?

Selection of databases that maintains a company's previously invested knowledge and abilities.

Removes the planning and worry of scaling your database horizontally and avoids a necessity to vertical scaling of the hardware. Outside of Amazon AWS this is very difficult to do.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Jump in - the water is very warm !

What do you dislike?

It's not a full service managed database. If you need help with query tuning or table / index optimization you will need to do that work on your own.

What do you like best?

RDS handles all the hard parts about running a database. It will handle clusters, backups all with high availability. We've used both the MySQL and SQL Server instances.

What do you dislike?

It is really hard to dislike anything, the service is perfect, if you are used to the Interface of Amazon AWS in General.

What do you like best?

Amazon RDS is really easy to setup and to maintain: Simple start an Instance and let Amazon do the Backup and the Patching. Connections from the clients to the database are encrypted with SSL and the database instances are fast and easy to use.