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Amazon RDS customers

Who uses Amazon RDS?

Organizations across industries and use cases run on Amazon RDS to easily manage their relational databases while optimizing for total cost of ownership. You can explore customer stories by Amazon RDS engine to see real life examples of how organizations are solving challenges, moving to managed, and are unlocking new opportunities for growth.

Amazon RDS customer stories

Select one of the Amazon RDS database engines below to view customer stories.

Amazon Aurora customers

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 MySQL customers

MySQL is the world's most popular open source relational database and Amazon RDS makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale MySQL deployments in the cloud. With Amazon RDS, you can deploy scalable MySQL servers in minutes with cost-efficient and resizable hardware capacity.

Amazon 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 PostgreSQL customers

PostgreSQL has become 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 Amazon RDS, you can deploy scalable PostgreSQL deployments in minutes with cost-efficient and resizable hardware capacity. Amazon RDS 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 Oracle customers

Amazon RDS for Oracle is an easy to manage relational database optimized for total cost of ownership. Amazon RDS 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; the Oracle Database software has been licensed by AWS.

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Amazon RDS for SQL Server customers

SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft. Amazon RDS for SQL Server is an easy to manage relation database optimized for total cost of ownership.With Amazon 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.

Amazon RDS 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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