Summary

Amazon RDS is gaining popularity because of its simplicity and out-of-the-box high availability solutions for many mission-critical workloads. Faster provisioning and on-demand capacity makes it a more exciting option, particularly in the development community. Application design considering the strengths of AWS might find RDS as a suitable platform, but as the degree of complexity and datasets increases, RDS gradually gets ruled out. RDS supports broad range of features for some of the commercial databases. We have learnt about some of the operational best practices that should be considered when deploying RDS. In the next chapter, we will learn about spinning up and maintaining RDS instances.