We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS and IBM Db2 on Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, MongoDB and others in Database as a Service."The most valuable feature is that it is a fully managed database, where they handle most of the administrative tasks and leaves the users more time to concentrate on business."
"Relational databases excel in extensive normalization, eliminating data redundancy and efficiently structuring tables which leads to a clear and efficient relationship between tables using primary keys."
"The tool is very easy to use and configure."
"The product solved our DevOps and admin problems."
"The solution’s scalability, usability, and availability are valuable to us."
"I use Amazon RDS to store and manage data securely. It helps me retrieve information and gain insights from the data that comes in for my business or specific applications."
"The solution is scalable and can be configured with AWS Secrets Manager."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon RDS is its performance."
"The reliability is the most valuable feature. It is also user-friendly."
"If we do not keep track of our costs, we might face some problems."
"The solution could improve the administration tools."
"I like using Amazon RDS because it offers quick operations for me. However, there are times when understanding how to use some of the services can be challenging, even with documentation. If I could add a feature, I'd improve navigation for related services."
"They should add a feature for manual SQL patching in RDS."
"A lot of the features are disabled by default. The solution should enable more features. I understand this could cause challenges to management for many clients using RDS, however."
"The solution could improve by adding a sandbox environment and more security."
"Currently, we are using Fargate. Instead of that, we are planning to use EC2 instances, but we are facing some problems, and we are unable to enable NAT gateway for Elastic Load Balancer. When we enable auto-scaling, the instance count increases, and we get IP addresses dynamically. We need to whitelist the IPs of these instances, but there is no option to whitelist those IPs in Amazon RDS. We need one static IP that we can assign to ELB so that we can whitelist this IP."
"Technical support could be better."
"I would give their support a ten if they had more tutorials available."
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Amazon RDS is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 45 reviews while IBM Db2 on Cloud is ranked 12th in Database as a Service. Amazon RDS is rated 8.4, while IBM Db2 on Cloud is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Amazon RDS writes "Provides excellent authentication, authorization, integration, data protection, and autoscaling features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Db2 on Cloud writes "Reliable and user-friendly ". Amazon RDS is most compared with MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud SQL, SQL Azure and Oracle Database as a Service, whereas IBM Db2 on Cloud is most compared with SQL Azure and Google Cloud SQL.
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