Amazon RDS
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VisitAmazon RDS vs MySQL
What both publish
| Fact | Amazon RDS | MySQL |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| High availability | Multi-AZ deployments synchronously replicate data and automatically fail over to a standby instance. | MySQL includes Group Replication, InnoDB Cluster and replication features for fault tolerance, failover, scale-out and high availability. |
Amazon RDS plans
- AWS Free TierFree
- AWS Free Tier for RDSFree
- On-demand—
- On-Demand Instances—
- Reserved Instance—
- Reserved Instances—
MySQL plans
- Community EditionPriced on request
- Community Edition—
- Standard Edition—
- Standard EditionPriced on request
- Enterprise EditionPriced on request
- Enterprise Edition—
Pick Amazon RDS if…
Amazon RDS suits teams seeking managed relational databases across its supported engines, with backup, scaling, monitoring, and security controls. It also supports read-heavy workloads through read replicas.
Pick MySQL if…
It suits developers and organisations building relational SQL or NoSQL applications, including web, e-commerce, SaaS, and transaction-processing systems. Teams needing commercial security features or support can consider the paid editions.