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 solution's customer service is excellent."
"The solution is scalable and can be configured with AWS Secrets Manager."
"Amazon RDS is easy to maintain and easy to deploy."
"Amazon RDS is good for backups, auto-scanning, and disaster recovery. It's also appropriate for the office server."
"Amazon RDS gives us the ability to select as many tools, replicas, regions, and zones as we want."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon RDS is its performance."
"Being able to change the size of an RDS MySQL instance is amazing."
"The provisioning is much faster. You don't have to prepare hardware or install software. You just need to create an instance and you have a database."
"The reliability is the most valuable feature. It is also user-friendly."
"Some of the features will not be there. For example, some on-premises things we want to set up will not be supported there. There are some challenges that they are fixing."
"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."
"Amazon RDS should have a more user-friendly graphical user interface and include better database management options."
"Currently, speaking of Microsoft SQL on RDS, you don't have a full option to be able to use it directly on RDS. So, it needs improvement."
"One of the challenges of AWS RDS is that it doesn't support performance insight. So we need to write our own script or use third-party tools."
"With my limited experience, I have noticed that documentation management could be improved. It could be better."
"Amazon RDS needs to have an overall dashboard where I can view all the tables in the form of pie charts and Gantt charts. The deployment is complex, and we would like to see automated scripts. It needs to incorporate performance insights."
"The only thing that needs improvement would be the pricing of the solution."
"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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