Amazon Relational Database Service#Multi-Availability Zone %28AZ%29 deployment

Amazon RDS was first released on 26 October 2009, supporting MySQL databases.[http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=2942&categoryID=291 Release: Amazon Relational Database Service : Release Notes : Amazon Web Services]{{Dead link|date=October 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Developer.amazonwebservices.com. Retrieved on 2013-08-09.Vogels, Werner. (2009-10-26) [http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2009/10/amazon_relational_database_service.html Expanding the Cloud: The Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)]. All Things Distributed. Retrieved on 2013-08-09. This was followed by support for Oracle Database in June 2011,{{cite web |date=2011-05-24 |title=Oracle database available as a service on Amazon AWS (RDS) |url=http://www.beyondoracle.com/2011/05/24/oracle-database-service-amazon-aws-rds/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140414000608/http://www.beyondoracle.com/2011/05/24/oracle-database-service-amazon-aws-rds/ |archive-date=2014-04-14 |access-date=2014-04-13 |website=beyondoracle.com}}{{cite web|title=AWS Announces Relational Database Service For Oracle|url=http://www.firstbiz.com/biztech/aws-announces-relational-database-service-for-oracle-12330.html|access-date=2014-04-13|website=firstbiz.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413234027/http://www.firstbiz.com/biztech/aws-announces-relational-database-service-for-oracle-12330.html|archive-date=2014-04-13}} Microsoft SQL Server in May 2012,[http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/05/net-support-for-aws-elastic-beanstalk-amazon-rds-for-sql-server-.html Amazon Web Services Blog: Amazon RDS for SQL Server and .NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103035539/http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/05/net-support-for-aws-elastic-beanstalk-amazon-rds-for-sql-server-.html |date=2013-01-03 }}. Aws.typepad.com (2012-05-08). Retrieved on 2013-08-09. PostgreSQL in November 2013,{{cite news |author=Williams |first=Alex |date=14 November 2013 |title=PostgreSQL Now Available On Amazon's Relational Database Service |language=en-US |publisher=TechCrunch |url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/14/postgressql-now-available-on-amazons-relational-database-service/ |access-date=October 25, 2020}} and MariaDB (a fork of MySQL) in October 2015,{{cite web|title=Amazon Web Services Announces Two New Database Services – AWS Database Migration Service and Amazon RDS for MariaDB|publisher=MarketWatch, Inc|url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-web-services-announces-two-new-database-services-aws-database-migration-service-and-amazon-rds-for-mariadb-2015-10-07/|date=2015-10-07|access-date=2015-10-23|archive-date=2018-07-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705004137/https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-web-services-announces-two-new-database-services-aws-database-migration-service-and-amazon-rds-for-mariadb-2015-10-07|url-status=dead}} and an additional 80 features during 2017.{{Cite web |last=Barr |first=Jeff |date=February 12, 2018 |title=Amazon Relational Database Service – Looking Back at 2017 |url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-relational-database-service-looking-back-at-2017/ |access-date=November 29, 2018 |website=Amazon Web Services |language=en-US}}

In November 2014 AWS announced Amazon Aurora, a MySQL-compatible database offering enhanced high availability and performance,{{Cite web |last=Barr |first=Jeff |date=November 12, 2014 |title=Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS |url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/highly-scalable-mysql-compat-rds-db-engine/ |access-date=July 19, 2017 |website=Amazon Web Services |language=en-US}} and in October 2017 a PostgreSQL-compatible database offering{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-amazon-aurora-with-postgresql-compatibility/|title=Now Available – Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility|date=October 24, 2017|website=Amazon Web Services}} was launched.{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/|title=Amazon Aurora – Relational Database Built for the Cloud - AWS|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}}

In March 2019 AWS announced support of PostgreSQL 11 in RDS,{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/03/postgresql11-now-supported-in-amazon-rds/|title=PostgreSQL 11 now Supported in Amazon RDS|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}} five months after official release.

New database instances can be launched from the AWS Management Console or using the Amazon RDS APIs.{{Cite web|url=https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/|title=Amazon Relational Database Service|website=docs.aws.amazon.com}} Amazon RDS offers different features to support different use cases. Some of the major features are:

In May 2010 Amazon announced Multi-Availability Zone deployment support.{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/05/18/announcing-multi-az-deployments-for-amazon-rds/|title=Announcing Multi-AZ Deployments for Amazon RDS|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}} Amazon RDS Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) allows users to automatically provision and maintain a synchronous physical or logical "standby" replica, depending on database engine, in a different Availability Zone{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/|title=Amazon RDS Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) - Amazon Web Services (AWS)|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}} (independent infrastructure in a physically separate location). Multi-AZ database instance can be developed at creation time or modified to run as a Multi-AZ deployment later. Multi-AZ deployments aim to provide enhanced availability and data durability for MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQL Server{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/rds/details/multi-az/|title=Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Deployments|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}} instances and are targeted for production environments.[http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2011/public/schedule/detail/19732 Replication for Availability & Durability with MySQL and Amazon RDS: O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2011 - O'Reilly Conferences, April 11 - 14, 2011, Santa Clara, CA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150523232753/http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2011/public/schedule/detail/19732 |date=2015-05-23 }}. En.oreilly.com. Retrieved on 2013-08-09. In the event of planned database maintenance or unplanned service disruption, Amazon RDS automatically fails over to the up-to-date standby, allowing database operations to resume without administrative intervention.

Multi-AZ RDS instances are optional and have a cost associated with them. When creating a RDS instance, the user is asked if they would like to use a Multi-AZ RDS instance. In Multi-AZ RDS deployments backups are done in the standby instance so I/O activity is not suspended any time but users may experience elevated latencies for a few minutes during backups.{{Cite web|url=https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_WorkingWithAutomatedBackups.html|title=Working With Backups - Amazon Relational Database Service|website=docs.aws.amazon.com}}

Read replicas allow different use cases such as to scale in for read-heavy database workloads. There are up to five replicas available for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL. Instances use the native, asynchronous replication functionality of their respective database engines.{{cite web | url=http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_ReadRepl.html | title=Working with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB Read Replicas | work=Amazon.com | access-date=2015-12-15}} They have no backups configured by default and are accessible and can be used for read scaling.{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/rds/details/read-replicas/|title=Amazon RDS Read Replicas|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}} MySQL and MariaDB read replicas can be made writeable again since October 2012;{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-rds-for-mysql-promote-read-replica/|title=Amazon RDS for MySQL – Promote Read Replica|date=October 11, 2012|website=Amazon Web Services}} PostgreSQL read replicas do not support it. Replicas are done at database instance level and do not support replication at database or table level.{{Cite web|url=https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18370746/can-you-replicate-a-specific-database-or-table-using-amazons-rds|title=mysql - Can you replicate a specific database or table using Amazon's RDS|website=Stack Overflow}}

Performance metrics for Amazon RDS are available from the AWS Management Console or the Amazon CloudWatch API. In December 2015, Amazon announced an optional enhanced monitoring feature that provides an expanded set of metrics for the MySQL, MariaDB, and Aurora database engines.{{cite web|last1=Barr|first1=Jeff|title=New – Enhanced Monitoring for Amazon RDS (MySQL 5.6, MariaDB, and Aurora)|url=https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-enhanced-monitoring-for-amazon-rds-mysql-5-6-mariadb-and-aurora/|website=AWS Blog|date=18 December 2015|publisher=Amazon.com|access-date=16 September 2016}}

Amazon RDS instances are priced very similarly to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). RDS is charged per hour and comes in two packages: On-Demand DB Instances{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing/|title=Amazon RDS Pricing - Amazon Web Services|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}} and Reserved DB Instances. On-Demand Instances are at an ongoing hourly usage rate. Reserved RDS Instances are offered in 1-year and 3-year terms and include no-upfront, partial-upfront, and all-upfront payment options. Currently, AWS does not offer a 3-year reservation with an "no-upfront" payment option.{{Cite web |title=A Complete Guide to AWS Reservations {{!}} Strake |url=https://eightlake.com/aws-rds-cost-analysis |access-date=2024-01-26 |website=eightlake.com |language=en}}

Apart from the hourly cost of running the RDS instance, users are charged for the amount of storage provisioned, data transfers and input and output operations performed. AWS have introduced Provisioned Input and Output Operations, in which the user can define how many IO per second are required by their application. IOPS can contribute significantly to the total cost of running the RDS instance.{{cite web|url=http://aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing/|title=Pricing|website=amazon.com|publisher=Amazon.com|access-date=2014-04-13}}

Amazon RDS also has an Aurora Serverless option. The serverless pricing unit is dollars per ACU hour. ACU stands for 'Aurora Capacity Limit'. This option is designed for customers that need to dramatically scale workloads.{{Cite web |title=AWS Cost Analysis: Amazon RDS Costs {{!}} Strake |url=https://getstrake.com/blog/aws-cost-analysis-amazon-rds-costs |access-date=2023-02-28 |website=getstrake.com |language=en}}

As part of the AWS Free Tier, the Amazon RDS Free Tier helps new AWS customers get started with a managed database service in the cloud for free. You can use the Amazon RDS Free Tier to develop new applications, test existing applications, or simply gain hands-on experience with Amazon RDS.{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/rds/free/|title=Amazon RDS Free Tier – Amazon Web Services (AWS)|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-08}}

Amazon RDS creates and saves automated backups of RDS DB instances. The first snapshot of a DB instance contains the data for the full DB instance and subsequent snapshots are incremental, maximum retention period is 35 days. In Multi-AZ RDS deployments backups are done in the standby instance so I/O activity is not suspended for any amount of time but you may experience elevated latencies for a few minutes during backups.

Database instances can be managed from the AWS Management Console, using the Amazon RDS APIs and using AWS CLI. Since 1 June 2017,{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/06/amazon-rds-supports-stopping-and-starting-of-database-instances/|title=Amazon RDS Supports Stopping and Starting of Database Instances|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}} you can stop AWS RDS instances from AWS Management Console or AWS CLI for 7 days at a time. After 7 days, it will be automatically started,{{Cite web|url=https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_StopInstance.html|title=Stopping an Amazon RDS DB Instance Temporarily - Amazon Relational Database Service|website=docs.aws.amazon.com}} and since September 2018 RDS instances can be protected from accidental deletion.{{Cite web|url=https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/09/amazon-rds-now-provides-database-deletion-protection/|title=Amazon RDS Now Provides Database Deletion Protection|website=Amazon Web Services, Inc.}} Increase DB space is supported, but not decrease allocated space.{{Cite web|url=https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_PIOPS.StorageTypes.html#USER_PIOPS.ModifyingExisting|title=Working with Storage for Amazon RDS DB Instances - Amazon Relational Database Service|website=docs.aws.amazon.com}} Additionally there is at least a six-hour period where new allocation cannot be done.

As of August 2020, Amazon RDS supports 82 DB instance types - to support different types of workloads:{{cite web|title=Amazon RDS Instance Comparison|url=http://rdsinstances.info/|access-date=2016-07-13|archive-date=2016-07-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160718191418/http://rdsinstances.info/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Amazon RDS Instances|url=https://aws.amazon.com/rds/instance-types/|access-date=2020-08-10|publisher=[Amazon.com]}}{{cite web|title=Amazon RDS Previous Instances|url=https://aws.amazon.com/rds/previous-generation/|access-date=2016-07-13|publisher=[Amazon.com]}}

• General Purpose: 31 instances
• Memory Optimized: 33 instances
• Previous Generation: 18 instances

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