From the course: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) Cert Prep: 3 Core Services

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RDS

RDS

- [Instructor] You just learnt about Amazon solution to a non-relational database: Amazon DynamoDB. But what if your application requires a relational database, and an efficient yet affordable one at that. As you'd imagine, AWS has a solution for that as well, and it's called Amazon Relational Database Service, or Amazon RDS. Don't you love it when the name of the service tells you exactly what it's meant for. With Amazon RDS, you can set up, operate, and scale a relational database with just a few clicks. It's cost-efficient, and you pay only for the resources you actually consume. You also have the option of on-demand pricing or even lower hourly rates with Reserved Instance pricing. Because you don't need to be responsible for provisioning, monitoring or maintaining the database, you can focus on building your application secure in the knowledge that AWS make sure your databases are highly available, durable, scalable, fast and secure. Best of all, while AWS does provide its own…

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