AWS RDS, Aurora, and EBS Storage Basics
What is RDS? Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) is a platform that manages databases. What RDS handles: Instance provisioning Backups Patching Monitoring Failover Database Engines Database software that runs on RDS. All use SQL but built by different organizations with different designs. Engine Built by License Characteristics MySQL Oracle (originally Sun) Open source (GPL) Simple, fast, web-focused PostgreSQL Open source community Open source Feature-rich, standards-compliant Oracle Oracle Corporation Commercial (paid) Enterprise, everything built-in Auto Increment ID syntax differences: ...