Understanding RDS

RDS allows users to stand up, scale, and operate relational database services without all the headache that comes with standing up your very own database servers. Aside from not having to locally allocate hardware and resources, RDS aims to lower the cost of ownership, which in turn allows companies to focus more on their own business goals and worry less about technology needs. Self-hosting databases tend to take up lots of time, money, and manpower – RDS enables owners to only need to create and configure their cloud database setup.

Let's take a quick look at some of the advantages of using RDS.

Advantages of using RDS

There are numerous benefits and plus points as to why RDS is a great way to stand up databases for an infrastructure. Besides some of the ones that we have briefly already mentioned, it's good to know how we can scale quickly and securely with AWS and its related services.

Let's look at some quick points as to...