RELATIONAL DATABASE
SERVICE
RDS (RELATIONAL DATABASE SERVICE)
• Suppose we have to create a Database, so traditionally we install a OS
and install the database such as oracle, MySQL etc. on that OS and call
it as a DB server.
• The entire DB server management right from installation and its
maintenance is on our side, for e.g. replication, backups etc.
• But with the help of AWS RDS the db. server maintenance is taken care
by Amazon.
• So we need to launch RDS and start using it directly.
• No need to create DB backups manually its taken care buy AWS itself.
RDS
• Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and
scale a relational database in the cloud.
• It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming
administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and
backups.
• It frees you to focus on your applications so you can give them the fast performance, high
availability, security and compatibility they need.
• Amazon RDS is available on several database instance types - optimized for memory,
performance or I/O - and provides you with six familiar database engines to choose from,
including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database, and MSSQL
Server.
AVAILABLE AMAZON DB ENGINES
BENEFITS
• Easy to administer:-
Amazon RDS makes it easy to go from project conception to deployment. Use the Amazon RDS
Management Console, the AWS RDS Command-Line Interface, or simple API calls to access the
capabilities of a production-ready relational database in minutes. No need for infrastructure
provisioning, and no need for installing and maintaining database software.
• Highly scalable
You can scale your database's compute and storage resources with only a few mouse clicks or an
API call, often with no downtime.
• Available and Durable
• Fast
• Secure
• Inexpensive
• RDS users can use AWS Identity and Access Management to define and set permissions for who
can access an RDS database.
PRICING
• 750 hours of Amazon RDS Single-AZ db.t2.micro Instance usage
running MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle BYOL, or SQL Server
(running SQL Server Express Edition).
• 20 GB of General Purpose (SSD) DB Storage.
• 20 GB of storage for your automated database backups and any user-
initiated DB Snapshots.
FEATURES
• Replication.
RDS uses the replication feature to create read replicas.
These are read-only copies of database instances that applications use
without altering the original production database.
Administrators can also enable automatic failover across multiple
availability zones through RDS Multi-AZ deployment and with
synchronous data replication.
READ REPLICA
FEATURES
• Storage. RDS provides three types of storage:
General-purpose solid-state drive (SSD). Amazon recommends this
storage as the default choice.
Provisioned input-output operations per second (IOPS). SSD storage for
I/O-intensive workloads.
Magnetic. A lower cost option.
FEATURES
• Monitoring.
The Amazon CloudWatch service enables managed monitoring. It lets users view
capacity and I/O metrics.
• Patching. RDS provides patches for whichever database engine the user chooses.
• Backups. Another feature is failure detection and recovery. RDS provides managed
instance backups with transaction logs to enable point-in-time recovery. Users pick a
retention period and restore databases to any time during that period. They also can
manually take snapshots of instances that remain until they are manually deleted.
• Pay as you go
COMPONENTS OF RDS
DB Instances:-
• They are the building blocks of RDS. It is an isolated database
environment in the cloud, which can contain multiple user-created
databases, and can be accessed using the same tools and applications
that one uses with a stand-alone database instance.
• A DB Instance can be created using the AWS Management Console ,
the Amazon RDS API, or the AWS Command line Interface .
• The computation and memory capacity of a DB Instance depends on
the DB Instance class. For each DB Instance you can select from 5GB to
6TB of associated storage capacity.
COMPONENTS
• Security Groups:-
A security group controls the access to a DB Instance. It does so by specifying a range of IP
addresses or the EC2 instances that you want to give access.
• DB Parameter groups:-
• It contains the engine configuration values that can be applied to one or more DB
Instances of the same instance type.
• If you don’t apply a DB Parameter group to your instance, you are assigned a default
Parameter group which has the default values.
• DB Option groups
• Some DB engines offer tools that simplify managing your databases.
• RDS makes these tools available with the use of Option groups.
