Amazon RDS resources
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is an easy to manage relational database optimized for total cost of ownership. Explore this page to learn more about how you can get started with Amazon RDS and its 8 engines, including resources on how to migrate, technical documentation, hands-on tutorials, videos, and more.
Getting started with Amazon RDS
Looking for information on how you can quickly get started on Amazon RDS? Below are the most important technical documentation guides, user guides, and tutorials to show how you can get started on Amazon RDS in a few steps. To explore other getting started tutorials, see the AWS Getting Started Resources Center.
DOCUMENTATION
Technical documentation and getting started guide that describes all Amazon RDS concepts and provides instructions on using the various features with both the console and the command line interface.
DOCUMENTATION
Technical documentation and getting started guide that describes all Amazon Aurora concepts and provides instructions on using the various features with both the console and the command line interface.
USER GUIDES
Prescriptive Guidance provides time-tested strategies, guides, and patterns to help accelerate your cloud migration, modernization, and optimization projects. These resources were developed by AWS technology experts and the global community of AWS Partners.
HANDS-ON TUTORIAL
In this tutorial, learn to create an environment to run, connect, and delete your MySQL instance. We will do this using Amazon RDS and everything in this tutorial is Free Tier eligible.
HANDS-ON TUTORIAL
In this tutorial, learn to create an environment to run, connect, and delete your PostgreSQL instance. We will do this using Amazon RDS and everything in this tutorial is Free Tier eligible.
HANDS-ON TUTORIAL
In this tutorial, learn to create, connect, and delete a Microsoft SQL Server database instance. We will do this using Amazon RDS. Everything done in this tutorial is Free Tier eligible.
Migration resources
If you're migrating from on premises or another self-managed database, dive into the resources below to help accelerate your move to Amazon RDS.
DOCUMENTATION
Provides a high-level overview of AWS DMS concepts. Includes instructions on migrating data and replicating ongoing changes from relational databases, data warehouses, and other types of data stores in the AWS Cloud.
WHITEPAPER
This whitepaper dives into key migration strategies for migrating Oracle Exadata workloads to AWS, pre-migration considerations, tools available on AWS to help you migrate, common migration questions, and how to get started.
VIDEO
Oracle Transportable Tablespaces help simplify RDS for Oracle migrations. This session explores the feature and migration process.
Sign in to the Amazon RDS console
Ready to get started with Amazon RDS? Sign in or create your own AWS account, go to the Amazon RDS Console, and create an Amazon RDS database in just a few clicks. Sign in to the AWS Management Console »
Developer tools and sample code
Quickly get started building with Amazon RDS by checking out the AWS CLI, Amazon RDS CLI, and other resources.
AWS CLI
This interface reference contains documentation for a programming or CLI you can use to manage Amazon RDS. It provides all the Amazon RDS CLI commands, syntax, and examples of common commands.
DOCUMENTATION
Amazon RDS allows you to use a simple set of web services APIs to create, delete, and modify instances. You can control access and instance security and manage database backups and snapshots.
Blogs and What's New
Read the latest blogs and most recent releases from Amazon RDS.
Blog posts
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Videos
Watch Amazon RDS experts speak on the latest innovations and enhancements with the most recent re:Invent breakout sessions, 15-minute developer videos, and more.
RE:INVENT SESSION
Amazon RDS is a fully managed database service that helps launch optimally configured, more secure, and highly available databases. This session explores its 2023 launches.
RE:INVENT SESSION
This session explores storing Amazon Bedrock data in Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition. Learn SQL queries and tuning parameters for optimizing application performance.
RE:INVENT SESSION
Learn to formulate an effective data strategy, use AWS data services to build generative AI applications, and accelerate efforts with data-centric architectural patterns.
RE:INVENT SESSION
Tuning database performance is an art and a science. Learn to use Amazon RDS performance monitoring features, Performance Insights and Enhanced Monitoring.
RE:INVENT SESSION
Discover how caching enhances performance and reduces cloud database costs. Explore how to optimize read performance with Amazon ElastiCache in this session.
RE:INVENT SESSION
This talk discusses how to take advantage of the continuous MySQL innovation provided by AWS and why AWS is the place to build and scale your MySQL workloads.
Whitepapers and reports
Explore recent analyst reports and whitepapers for Amazon RDS.
WHITEPAPER
Organizations achieved significant value from using Amazon RDS through reduced costs, greater staff and database performance, and business enablement, resulting in an average annual benefit of $11.7 million and three-year ROI of 258%.
WHITEPAPER
IDC forecasts the cloud as the fastest-growing platform for data generation. SQL Server is no exception to cloud deployment trends. A majority of SQL Server users chose AWS as their primary cloud provider when polled.
