An overview of Amazon RDS

Before we go ahead and dive into the amazing world of RDS, it is essential to understand what exactly AWS provides you when it comes to database-as-a-service offerings and how can you effectively use them. To start off, AWS provides a bunch of awesome and really simple-to-use database services that are broadly divided into two classes: the relational databases, which consist of your MySQL and Oracle databases, and the non-relational databases, which consist of a propriety NoSQL database similar to MongoDB. Each of these database services is designed by AWS to provide you with the utmost ease and flexibility of use along with built-in robustness and fault tolerance. This means that all you need to do as an end user or a developer is simply configure the databases service once, run it just as you would run any standard database without worrying about the internal complexities of clustering, sharding, and so on, and only pay for the amount of resources that you use...