Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) has officially opened to all users after three years of only being available to chosen Amazon Web Services customers.
The service allows users to host MySQL, Microsoft SQL and Oracle databases in the AWS cloud. Payment is charged per month based on the size of the database and the number of hours the instance is kept up.
RDS also features a service Amazon is calling “read replicas” – the ability to easily create live-updating duplicates of a database that needs to handle a lot of read requests.
In addition, because of the new Service Level Agreement, customers who have multiple availability-zone deployments of their database will receive credits in the event the database drops below 99.95% uptime. It’s worth noting that those assurances do not extend to customers who choose to only deploy their database in a single availability zone.
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