Amazon RDS Initial Setup

Udhay Prakash Pethakamsetty - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer Manager at Capgemini

The initial setup is easy.

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Kiran Rajanna - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect and Cloud Security Consultant at Cgi Deutschland KG

Amazon RDS' deployment is complex. 

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LD
Manager at Deloitte

The initial setup is straightforward. The deployment takes around ten minutes.

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Saurav P - PeerSpot reviewer
Big Data Engineer at Cognizant

The solution's initial setup is easy.

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Harsha Ravnikar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect at Sysmex America, Inc.

My impression is that deployment is quite straightforward. It took just one person in our company to deploy it.

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HD
Cloud Engineer at REDtone Digital Services

The initial setup was straightforward.

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MA
Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

The initial setup is fairly straightforward. There is some tuning that needs to be done with RDS. The default settings are not always adequate.

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Ramkumar  Kolpurath - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder & CTO at Busofttech

The initial setup of the solution can be done very easily with the click of a button.

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Venkateswar Ndt - PeerSpot reviewer
Controler at Emirates

The solution's initial setup is complex.

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Sunita Gajurel - PeerSpot reviewer
Student at a university with 10,001+ employees

The tool's initial setup is straightforward. 

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Adalberto Barbosa Da Costa Lobato - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Solutions Architect at gwcloud.company

The initial deployment was straightforward. We can do it via CLI, or we can do it pretty much like a Windows machine. We can just click on the next button when prompted and click on finish at the end.

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Jay Vekaria - PeerSpot reviewer
Linux System Administrator at Ergode

The initial setup was very easy.

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MN
Manager, Enterprise Service at Hang Seng Bank

The initial setup is easy. For the deployment, one has to prepare the pipeline and set up the security configuration. The complete deployment takes a couple of days. Three software engineers are required in the deployment process. I rate the setup an eight out of ten.

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AnilKumar31 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Systems Engineering at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The initial setup was easy.

The solution is deployed on the cloud.

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VinayKumar2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Data Engineer at Seven Lakes Enterprises, Inc.

I would rank the setup as eight out of 10, along with the Microsoft SQL Server on RDS. It took 10 to 15 minutes. It was straightforward for me as my field is data and data engineering. But it shouldn't be too difficult for anyone unfamiliar with the technologies because the documentation is pretty clear.

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BharathKumar2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Administrator at Cartrack

Installation is straightforward. You choose your database for RDS, like MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc., and select the distance type. It takes a maximum of five minutes time to select and set up the system. Our servers can be up and running in 10 to 15 minutes, and data migration took about an hour.

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ME
IT Help Desk Specialist at Nafeza

The product's installation phase is easy.

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AS
Team Lead at Midland Credit Management, Inc.

The initial setup is quite easy. If we know the configuration, we can run the system, and our database will be ready in 10 to 15 minutes.

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DD
Senior DevSecOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

I find the tool's installation easy.

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ARIEL MUNAFO - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder & CEO at CLOUDEX

The solution's initial setup is easy.

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SS
DevOps DBA at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The solution's initial setup is straightforward.

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MM
Electrical Engineer at Strathmore University

I completed the deployment myself. We're using local databases on a local host to test and deploy it.

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HW
Teach Lead - (Senior) Mean Full Stack Developer at GreenMedia Partners (Pvt) Ltd

The initial setup was easy for me. In the beginning, I began with research and development. I didn't have any issues, it comes naturally to me.

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JZ
Sr. Database Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is straightforward. Deployment took about ten minutes.

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LS
Business Manager at Darede Serviços de TI

The initial deployment of RDS was straightforward since our teams have experience.

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JL
Head Of Information Technology at Bquate Music

The initial setup was straightforward.

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JY
Software Architecture Lead at SoftwareONE

The setup of Amazon RDS was complex.

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昌遠
Maintanece IT infastructure at 株式会社インフォセンス

The setup process is simple and straightforward. It is not overly complex. 

It only takes about ten to 20 minutes to deploy the product. It's very fast.

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DZ
Cloud Engineer/ Data Architect at a government with 201-500 employees

I rate Amazon RDS nine out of 10 for ease of setup.

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VamsiMohan - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at HUBER

The initial setup is satisfactory.

It took two weeks to complete the installation.

We have three engineers, one lead, and one manager to maintain this solution.

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AF
Advisory and IT Transformation Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Amazon RDS is easy to deploy and integrate, but it depends on the solution. Maybe if you need to restore your database in a different region or in a different account or want to run Amazon RDS databases in multi-account environments, then it can be really hard and painful.

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AC
Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup of Amazon RDS is simple. The deployment is quick because of automation. It can be done in less than 10 minutes.

The solution does not require human intervention for deployment. You can simply load it into the pipeline and the pipeline will deploy it automatically.

I rate the initial setup of Amazon RDS a ten out of ten.

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Naresh Reddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions Architect at OORWIN LABS INC

It is straightforward. It takes only a couple of minutes.

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Shaamil Ashraff - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect - Database Administration at Mitra Innovation

The implementation process is straightforward. The instructions are very clear. Even a person with basic knowledge would be able to spin up an RDS without an issue. It's not very complicated. The parameters are simple. You can read and understand everything very easily and know what questions to ask and what parameters to consider.

One staff member is more than enough for deployment and maintenance. 

You don't need a separate staff for the RDS management. A regular person who manages the rest of the Amazon services can easily monitor it. It has a very good service called CloudWatch, Amazon CloudWatch. Through CloudWatch, everything could be monitored very, very well. All these services are auto-scale. Alerts can be automated as well. I've done this for clients. We have it configured in a way where it's very easy to maintain and manage. We don't need to continuously monitor or anything. We have set thresholds and that CloudWatch service actually helps us to do the monitoring part automatically.

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AN
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Setting up Amazon RDS is quite simple. First, you create an instance by specifying details like its name, storage preferences, and security settings. You can also choose to set up backups. After clicking "create," your RDS instance is ready within minutes. You receive connection parameters, which you use in your application to connect to the database. From there, you can start creating tables and storing data. It's a straightforward process that doesn't require much technical complexity. The deployment of Amazon RDS instance was very quick configuration took only a few minutes. It is an easy and cost-effective process, with a setup fee of around $31. Getting the connection parameters and establishing the connection to the database was seamless and efficient. Overall, it was a smooth and positive experience. 
Amazon RDS requires some maintenance, but it is not complicated. You might need to update the database configuration from time to time, which can be done by modifying your RDS instance. You can also schedule regular backups and updates provided by AWS. These changes can be controlled by you, so it is an organized process that ensures your database stays in good shape without much hassle. We have approximately 10,000 users of the solution at our company.

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GK
IT Solution Architect at HCS

The initial setup will be complex. You and your team need to understand the complexities of setting up IAM, security groups, AMIs, VPCs, autoscaling/loadbalancing, and RDS, then plan for multiple availability zones for disaster and recovery. You also need to set up an infrastructure admin and infrastructure support team who will work closely with the AWS team. You do not want your entire development to get involved with setting up the infrastructure. Your administrators and infrastructure team need to set it up, then guide the development team on how to utilize the infrastructure.

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SR
Principal engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We initially deployed Amazon RDS on-premises, although we are now migrating to cloud-based deployment. Spinning up a task is very easy and there is no maintenance. There are no administrative tasks involved for us because it is entirely taken care of. This includes monitoring and backup, as well.

The length of time for deployment depends on the size of the database. If they say it is one gigabyte then it will take a few minutes.

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it_user433491 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect, Oracle ACE, Oracle DBA at Pythian

With the expertise and experience of Pythian, the initial setup was a breeze.

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ES
Head of Data Projects at Cognitivo

The initial setup is straightforward. 

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AC
Data Engineer at Elastacloud

The initial setup is straightforward because our data isn't difficult to manage. But there are a few things that take some time or become hard to manage because we have many security and network configurations. I need to rush through the connection between my machine and the cloud to bypass our prepaid network, and that makes things a little bit harder. But it's not too complicated.

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it_user422652 - PeerSpot reviewer
DBA at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup was very simple.

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CL
Data Analyst at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Its installation is very complex. It takes one whole day.

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Buyer's Guide
Amazon RDS
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Amazon RDS. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,578 professionals have used our research since 2012.