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An RDS overview

An RDS overview - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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An RDS overview

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- The Amazon relational database service is essentially a software as a service offering in that they are going to run a database engine for you. Everything below the installation of that software is Amazon's responsibility. So they're going to handle the actual installation of MySQL, the installation of the underlying operating system, which is probably Linux, the underlying server, that physical server, and then Rackspace power and cooling as you would in a private cloud type of deployment. So you essentially say, "I want a relational database. Amazon, please give me one." They will then provision it, install it, and provide you with access to it. They give you the host name, fully qualified host name that you can connect to with your standard MySQL client or whatever the database is, and access it just like any other database. And from that point down, Amazon handles everything else, from software updates to backups, read replicas, things like that. It's all handled by Amazon based…

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