Amazon RDS vs SolarWinds SQL Sentry

Amazon RDS plans

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

SolarWinds SQL Sentry plans

• SQL SentryPriced on request

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 SolarWinds SQL Sentry if…

It suits database and IT teams managing SQL Server or Azure SQL environments that need query, deadlock, alerting, and capacity analysis.