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 Amazon RDS features I found most valuable are snapshots and automatic backups."
"Amazon RDS gives us the ability to select as many tools, replicas, regions, and zones as we want."
"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 is quite a well-managed and stable service...The initial setup was very easy."
"Encryption is the most valuable feature."
"The tool is very easy to use and configure."
"The reliability is the most valuable feature. It is also user-friendly."
"Amazon RDS should have a more user-friendly graphical user interface and include better database management options."
"AWS support is decent, but it's not as good as before. Sometimes, we get junior staff who are unable to answer our questions. It also depends on the support team you get. Support based in Europe and Australia is better than US support. For example, European support is quick to deliver the right answer. US support handles routine maintenance issues, and it's mostly junior staff who don't know the product well."
"If we do not keep track of our costs, we might face some problems."
"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."
"The Amazon RDS engine could provide features for additional databases, such as Db2. It could also provide support for other databases, such as NoSQL databases, DynamoDB, and Apache Cassandra. They could all stay under one hood."
"I feel Amazon RDS should have a lot of functionalities to make monitoring within the database easier."
"Technical support could be better."
"They should add a feature for manual SQL patching in RDS."
"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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