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We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS and vCloud Air based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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  • "By using a combination of Reserve Instances and On-Demand pricing, you can reduce the cost."
  • "The cost of using this solution is similar to that of having your own data center."
  • "The price could be better."
  • "It is less expensive than SQL Server. We pay based on the usage on a monthly basis."
  • "We are paying for a service license."
  • "Licensing fees are paid on an annual basis."
  • "if you don't know how to optimize and use your tool properly, the cost might hurt you."
  • "Amazon RDS could improve by reducing the price."
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    Top Answer: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.
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    Overview

    Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient, resizeable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks.

    vCloud Air is a public cloud platform built on the trusted foundation of vSphere, compatible with your on-premises data center, that includes infrastructure, disaster recovery, and various applications as service offerings. vCloud Air allows you to extend your workloads into the cloud with ease. You can migrate existing onsite virtual machines (VMs) to the public cloud or start up new application VMs directly in the cloud.
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    Lumeta, LifeSite, Clear Tec Solutions, National Physician Services, Queens University of Charlotte, California Natural Resources Agency, Pacific Disaster Center, Seventy Seven Energy Inc., Columbia Sportswear , CSS Corp
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    Computer Software Company27%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Government14%
    Comms Service Provider9%
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    Financial Services Firm13%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Retailer7%
    Comms Service Provider6%
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    Small Business41%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise39%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Amazon RDS is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 44 reviews while vCloud Air is ranked 17th in Database as a Service. Amazon RDS is rated 8.4, while vCloud Air is rated 8.0. 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 vCloud Air writes "With the VPC, you can run your workloads in an active state, use it for development work and for hosting SQL/Exchange Servers in IaaS; RaaS/DaaS for DR activities". Amazon RDS is most compared with Google Cloud SQL, MongoDB Atlas, SQL Azure, Oracle Database as a Service and Google Cloud Spanner, whereas vCloud Air is most compared with Microsoft Azure, SQL Azure and Amazon AWS.

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