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Amazon Web Services Announces Relational Database Services

2009-10-27T21:43:00Z

Amazon is providing users with the ability to run relational databases in the cloud. The service, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), means that customers now have another way to use a cloud service for a function normally administered by an IT department.

Werner Vogels, chief technology officer for Amazon, says the new service means that RDS customers will not have to deal with "the 'muck' of relational database management freeing up its users to focus on their applications and business." RDS will take care of the headaches such as patching and IT administration of the relational database.

]]> According to Vogels, RDS provides the full capabilities of a MySQL Database. The goal is to make it simple for customers to move their databases to RDS without needing to make modifications. Like all Amazon Web Services, RDS scales based on usage. The customer may use as much storage, power and memory as they need. Costs ebb and flow depending on how much they use. Storage, for instance, is managed through API calls.

RDS pricing per instance is as follows:

In addition to RDS, Amazon now offers Simple DB and Amazon EC2- Relational Database AMI.

The Simple DB service is a simpler version of RDS. According to Vogels, it is designed for applications that do not require a relational model and principally demand indexing and querying capabilities.

The Amazon EC2- Relational Database AMI is designed for users who have particular relational database requirements and want full control.

RDS may be a bit slow to adoption as security is the big issue for the enterprise. But this issue will wane as people recognize that cloud offerings can be as secure as on-premise systems. Further, we are sure that security concerns will mellow when companies compare the costs and time requirements of RDS to what they do on-premise.

In that regard, prices are already decreasing for EC2. Starting November 1, Amazon is dropping its per-hour prices for the following:

That's a 15 percent drop in cost from the current prices for Linux instances.

Comment from Esp Adm on 2011-02-10

2011-02-10T09:39:30Z

Well it would be more useful for the Amazon clients to save huge data for them. Even for the Amazon also.

Comment from lahmacun firini on 2010-10-07

2010-10-07T07:43:04Z

Fine was a work and full-time.

Comment from Cep telefonu on 2010-08-14

2010-08-14T19:03:18Z

The price cut is good news for us. Also the RDS service will help us to move to scalable database. I hope the migration be easy and straight forward! I am not still sure to the extend of code changes we have to do.

Comment from Kontör on 2010-08-14

2010-08-14T19:01:56Z

The customer may use as much storage, power and memory as they need. Costs ebb and flow depending on how much they use. Storage, for instance, is managed through API calls.

Comment from seks shop on 2010-08-14

2010-08-14T19:00:38Z

Well it is interesting how it looks like in the case when someone has already been using a database and would like to migrate to Amazon service for example his Oracle database.

Comment from Turkcell kontör on 2010-08-14

2010-08-14T18:59:22Z

The Amazon EC2- Relational Database AMI is designed for users who have particular relational database requirements and want full control.

Comment from erotik shop on 2010-08-14

2010-08-14T18:58:09Z

Further, we are sure that security concerns will mellow when companies compare the costs and time requirements of RDS to what they do on-premise.

Comment from Avea kontör on 2010-08-14

2010-08-14T18:56:56Z

RDS may be a bit slow to adoption as security is the big issue for the enterprise. But this issue will wane as people recognize that cloud offerings can be as secure as on-premise systems.

Comment from sex shop on 2010-08-14

2010-08-14T18:55:40Z

Comment from Vodafone kontör on 2010-08-14

2010-08-14T18:54:06Z

According to Vogels, RDS provides the full capabilities of a MySQL Database. The goal is to make it simple for customers to move their databases to RDS without needing to make modifications.

Comment from sesli chat on 2010-05-15

2010-05-15T19:06:39Z

Amazon has put some amazing features into the RDS service. The instant snapshots, point in time recovery, etc are great if you have small databases with very little activity. However, if you have any real data processing to do, EC2s and RDS are pretty useless.

Comment from erotik shop on 2010-04-06

2010-04-06T08:05:55Z

My company provides file hosting and collaboration ( www.binfire.com ). We are moving our services from our own dedicated servers to Amazon's. The price cut is good news for us. Also the RDS service will help us to move to scalable database. I hope the migration be easy and straight forward! I am not still sure to the extend of code changes we have to do

Comment from Andrew Murray on 2010-03-21

2010-03-21T14:47:50Z

The cloud security issue is the one thing that is going to bother me about this. I think it will be a long time before i adopt cloud technology over on-premise.

Comment from SEO Services on 2009-11-18

2009-11-18T14:17:23Z

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Comment from Jason (working for M80, representing Microsoft) on 2009-10-30

2009-10-30T23:46:09Z

Justin, are you writing the apps that are accessing the DB? If so, have you considered partitioning ("sharding") your DB into multiple smaller ones? As I'm sure you know, if you have huge amounts of data (my guess is you do, since you are using Amazon's "Quadruple Extra Large DB Instance"), performance can really crawl. Was your DB the same size on your Dell?

This page discusses sharding and how to implement it in your code: http://bit.ly/2NRKWY

It would be interesting to compare performance numbers between Amazon's RDBMS and Microsoft's SQL Azure (http://bit.ly/SQLAzureDB).

Comment from Justin Noel on 2009-10-28

2009-10-29T04:15:31Z

I spent all of last night working with RDS for some massive data sets. It was so disappointing. Setup - excellent. API interface - very good. Query speed - Awesome. Insert, update, delete speeds - HORRIBLE.

Using an "Extra Large EC2 Standard Instance" to process data and a "Quadruple Extra Large DB Instance" for my database, I could only achieve 85 Queries Per Second.

When I setup a MySQL server on my "Extra Large EC2 Standard Instance", I was able to achieve 190 Queries Per Second using the exact same script.

However, even the 190 QPS pales in comparison to a much lower powered Dell 1950 with only 8GB of RAM acting as the DB server and the application server. Again, with the same script and data, I could achieve > 7500 QPS.

Comment from david Robins on 2009-10-28

2009-10-28T08:52:20Z

Comment from Gogi on 2009-10-28

2009-10-28T07:48:09Z

Well it is interesting how it looks like in the case when someone has already been using a database and would like to migrate to Amazon service for example his Oracle database.