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 ...

At a high-level, RDS streamlines setup, operation, and scaling relational databases in AWS, such as MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and others.

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 ...