Summary

• An RDS is a fully managed relational database service.
• An RDS provides fine-grained access control with the help of AWS IAM.
• An RDS does not allow the user to access the underlined host operating system.
• You can stop and start any RDS database engine.
• You can stop and start an RDS instance irrespective of whether it is in single-AZ or multi-AZ, except for SQL Server. SQL Server RDS in multi-AZ cannot be stopped.
• An RDS instance can be stopped for a maximum of seven consecutive days. After seven days, the instance is automatically restarted.
• RDS supports the Aurora, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server database engines.
• You can create a Read Replica for an RDS instances.
• Read Replica can be created for Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and Oracle RDS database instances.
• Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-and PostgreSQL-compatible, fully managed RDBMS.
• MariaDB is...