In 2009, AWS pioneered fully-managed cloud database services for open-source database management systems (DBMS) with the launch of Amazon Relational Database Service, or Amazon RDS. The ambition was ...

AWS provides a useful diagram to help visualize a common scenario, such as having an AWS RDS database instance running in a private subnet (not publicly accessible) and then having an application ...

However, there are some important differences between RDS and EC2 databases. RDS for Simplicity and Reduced Maintenance and Management The main advantage of RDS is that AWS will take responsibility ...