Amazon RDS for Db2
Easy to manage relational databases optimized for total cost of ownership
Benefits of Amazon RDS for Db2
Fully managed
Save time and costs by moving to a fully managed relational database service that automates time-consuming database administrative tasks and reduces infrastructure costs.
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High availability
Achieve business continuity with high availability and disaster recovery capabilities, such as Multi-AZ and cross-Region backups, to support business-critical transactional, operational, and analytical workloads in a single Db2 engine.
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Security and compliance
Amazon RDS for Db2 is built on AWS infrastructure where security is our top priority. Security features include encryption in transit and at rest, a fully configurable network using Amazon VPC, and more. Amazon RDS supports compliance programs, such as HIPAA and FedRAMP.
Ease of migration
Easily migrate using managed services, such as AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), with near-zero downtime and zero data loss, or native migration tools.
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Why Amazon RDS for Db2?
Db2 is an IBM relational database that supports large-scale transactional and analytical workloads. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Db2 makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale Db2 deployments in the cloud. Amazon RDS automates time-consuming database administration tasks, such as provisioning, backups, software patching, monitoring, and more, to free up time to innovate and drive business value. It also offers high availability with Multi-AZ deployment, disaster recovery solutions with cross-Region backups, and security features to support your business-critical workloads. In addition, you can integrate with other IBM and AWS services to gain new insights and scale your analytics workloads.
Amazon RDS for Db2 is available as a Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model or with hourly, on-demand licensing through the AWS Marketplace.
Use cases
Simplify database management
Run business-critical transactional, operational, and analytical workloads in a single, fully managed Db2 database.
Innovate applications
Focus on innovation and optimizing applications with high availability, performance, and scale.
Integrate seamlessly with other services
Connect to other AWS or IBM services, such as a data warehouse, to scale your analytics and AI/ML workloads.
Maintain compliance and protect your data
Ensure your data is protected and in compliance under the AWS Compliance Program, which includes HIPAA, FedRAMP, SOC, and more.
Customers
Air Canada
Air Canada is Canada's largest airline, the country’s flag carrier, and a founding member of Star Alliance, the world's most comprehensive air transportation network with scheduled service directly to more than 180 airports in Canada, the United States, and internationally on six continents.
“For decades, we operated and managed our own data centers, running critical IBM mainframe and AIX workloads on Db2. However, we found that our existing legacy set up did not permit us the flexibility and agility we needed to innovate. As a result, we chose Amazon RDS for Db2 to help us make the pivot to a cloud-first strategy.
By easily and quickly migrating our critical Db2 workloads to the cloud, including our financial and flight scheduling applications, we have reduced the operational burden of managing our own databases. RDS for Db2 has allowed us to consolidate eight of our Db2 instances into a single Amazon RDS instance, helping us to optimize our licensing costs.
The service offers fully managed features like Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments, which enabled our applications for high availability and automatic failover capabilities to enhance the reliability of our mission-critical systems.
Using AWS managed services has empowered us to build a more agile, future-ready IT architecture to support our growth and innovation. We are excited to further build with RDS for Db2 to advance our digital modernization initiatives.”
Ray Galipeau, Senior Director, Cloud, Network & Platform Services, Air Canada
Deloitte
“Up until now, our clients looked to leverage AWS to either refactor alternative database engines or to self-manage Db2 instances. With the launch of Amazon RDS for Db2, clients can get the benefits of Db2 in a fully managed service that provides additional security and reliability, potentially resulting in faster time-to-value with lower effort. It’s exciting for us to be working with AWS and IBM to use this new offering in support of clients’ objectives."
Ravi Sheth, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Kyndryl
“As the leading Db2 managed services provider, Kyndryl is excited to partner with AWS on the launch of Amazon RDS for Db2. Through this service, Kyndryl will help customers with cloud-native modernization while maintaining the data structure developed under Db2. This will simplify the management effort and reduce the cost of ownership, which allows our customers to shift their focus to high value application and data services in support of their business."
Nicolas Sekkaki, General Manager, Global Practice - Applications, Data and AI, Kyndryl
