Amazon RDS vs Percona Monitoring and Management

Amazon RDS plans

• AWS Free TierFree
• AWS Free Tier for RDSFree
• On-demand—
• On-Demand Instances—
• Reserved Instance—
• Reserved Instances—

Percona Monitoring and Management plans

• PMMFree

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 Percona Monitoring and Management if…

PMM suits teams managing MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB across on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments. It is relevant to operators who need query analysis, database advice, alerts, or backups.