Getting started with Amazon RDS

The best way to understand Amazon RDS is to review the Getting Started Guide, part of our Technical Documentation. Once you are ready to create your own DB Instance and start building applications, you can use the AWS Management Console or Amazon RDS APIs to launch a DB Instance in minutes.

The AWS Free Tier for Amazon RDS provides free use of Single-AZ Micro DB instances running MariaDB. The free usage tier is capped at 750 instance hours per month. Customers also receive 20 GB of database storage, 10 million I/Os, and 20 GB of backup storage for free per month.

If you wish to run more than 40 DB Instances, please complete this form and we will promptly respond to your request.

Amazon RDS Documentation

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient, resizable capacity for industry-standard relational databases and manages common database administration tasks.

Amazon RDS User Guide
Describes all Amazon RDS concepts and provides instructions on using the various features with both the console and the command line interface.

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Amazon RDS in the AWS CLI Reference
Describes all the CLI commands for Amazon RDS in detail. Provides all syntax. Also provides examples for the most common commands.

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Amazon Aurora User Guide
Describes all Amazon Aurora concepts and provides instructions on using the various features with both the console and the command line interface.

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API Reference
Describes all the API operations for Amazon RDS in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.

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Performance Insights API Reference
Describes all the API operations for Amazon RDS Performance Insights in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web service protocols.

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Videos

MySQL options on AWS: Self-managed, managed, serverless
Enhancing your Amazon RDS for MariaDB databases with MariaDB version 10.6

Online Courses and Tutorials

Create and Connect to a MariaDB

Learn how to create an environment to run your MariaDB database (we call this environment an instance), connect to the database, and delete the DB instance.

Getting Started with Amazon RDS for MariaDB
Learn the benefits, typical use cases, and technical concepts of Amazon RDS for MariaDB. You will be able to try the service through demonstrations using the Amazon RDS console.

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