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Amazon RDS customers

Easy to manage relational databases optimized for total cost of ownership

Customers across industries and use cases

Hundreds of thousands of customers trust Amazon Aurora and RDS to fully manage their relational databases, which power some of the world's most demanding applications. You can explore real life examples of how customers are solving challenges and unlocking new opportunities for growth.

Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora provides unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and DSQL. Aurora has 5x the throughput of MySQL and 3x of PostgreSQL with full PostgreSQL and MySQL compatibility.

Aurora also offers DSQL, the fastest distributed SQL database that is PostgreSQL-compatible. Aurora is designed for up to 99.999% multi-Region availability. With Aurora DSQL, Aurora provides virtually unlimited scale in and across regions with no infrastructure management.

Aurora offers broad compliance standards and enterprise security capabilities, and support for globally distributed apps.

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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL customers

PostgreSQL is the preferred open source relational database for many enterprise developers and startups, powering leading business and mobile applications. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL is an easy to manage PostgreSQL database optimized for total cost of ownership.

With RDS, you can deploy scalable PostgreSQL deployments in minutes with cost-efficient and resizable hardware capacity. RDS for PostgreSQL manages complex and time-consuming administrative tasks such as PostgreSQL software installation and upgrades, storage management, replication for high availability and read throughput, and backups for disaster recovery.

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Amazon RDS for MySQL

Amazon RDS for MySQL is an easy to manage MySQL database optimized for total cost of ownership. With RDS, you can deploy scalable MySQL servers in minutes with cost-efficient and resizable hardware capacity.

RDS for MySQL frees you up to focus on application development by managing time-consuming database administration tasks, including backups, upgrades, software patching, performance improvements, monitoring, scaling, and replication.

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Amazon RDS for Oracle customers

Amazon RDS for Oracle is an easy to manage relational database optimized for total cost of ownership. RDS for Oracle frees you up to focus on innovation and application development by managing time-consuming database administration tasks, including provisioning, backups, software patching, monitoring, and hardware scaling.

You can run Amazon RDS for Oracle under two different licensing models: License Included and Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL). In the License Included service model, you do not need separately purchased Oracle licenses as the Oracle Database software has been licensed by AWS.

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Amazon RDS for SQL Server customers

Amazon RDS for SQL Server is an easy to manage relational database optimized for total cost of ownership. With RDS, you can deploy multiple editions of SQL Server (2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2022), including Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise, in minutes with cost-efficient and re-sizable compute capacity.

RDS for SQL Server frees you up to focus on application development by managing time-consuming database administration tasks, including provisioning, backups, software patching, monitoring, and hardware scaling.

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