Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) vs. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

288 Reviews and Ratings

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

338 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon RDS	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) from Amazon Web Services.	N/A
Amazon S3	Score8.8 out of 10	N/A	Amazon S3 is a cloud-based object storage service from Amazon Web Services. It's key features are storage management and monitoring, access management and security, data querying, and data transfer.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon RDS

Amazon S3

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL: $0.24 ($0.48)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for MariaDB: $0.25 ($0.50)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for MySQL: $0.29 ($0.58)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for Oracle: $0.482 ($0.964)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for SQL Server: $1.02 ($1.52)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)

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Pricing Offerings
Amazon RDS	Amazon S3
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Amazon RDS	Amazon S3
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Verified User Chose Amazon RDS Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) stands out among similar products due to its seamless integration with other AWS services, automated backups, and multi-AZ deployments for high availability. Its support for various database engines, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon RDS With products like Google Cloud SQL, Azure SQL Database, AWS RDS stacks up quite well in all features. Features like licensing, performance, security comes to my mind the most. Another aspect is AWS's global reach. Incentivized Helpful? Adrián Rivelli Technical Leader (Citibank) in Information Technology at Tecso Coop (Banking, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon RDS Although the Rackspace service is not comparable, even though it is very good, it requires a lot of administration on my part. Regarding Atlas, although it is not the same as RDS in terms of provisioning and administration panel, I mention it because I found it simpler and more … Incentivized Helpful? John Vargo Manager, Web and Interactive Media in Marketing at National Bulk Equipment, Inc. (Machinery, 201-500 employees) Chose Amazon RDS Previously used Media Temple database hosting (now GoDaddy). While that endeavor was also successful, the AWS RDS is more secure, with higher availability and better documentation. Incentivized Helpful? Mukhtar Ahmad Ganayee Principal Consultant DBA at Genpact LLC in Information Technology at Genpact (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon RDS Hardware difference compared with Normal Database on physical servers Incentivized Helpful? Sathish kumar Saminathan Senior Technoilogy Architect in Information Technology at Infosys (Insurance, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon RDS AWS was selected by the customer so we moved to RDS for some Db's where its compatible to make is more maintenance friendly Incentivized Helpful? Tom Blazek IT Manager in Information Technology at Rancilio Group North America (Wholesale, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon RDS I selected AWS RDS over Azure because of the [number] of products AWS has that work together. The cost for RDS was cheaper than Azure's SQL also. I use Azure for MSSQL workloads and AWS for MySQL workloads. Probably the main reason was we wanted to use S3 and Azure doesn't have … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon RDS Amazon RDS provides more configuration ability, and also it's scalable and highly available for real-time response to the complex query. Incentivized Helpful? Anudeep Palanki Application Developer in Information Technology at Monsanto Company (Farming, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon RDS Though you could get similar functionality using Docker, Amazon RDS offers a more comprehensive SaaS solution. With Docker, you still need to have an EC2 instance to install the Docker and manage backup scripts using EC2 snapshots or S3. But RDS provides that solution … Incentivized Helpful?	Amazon AWS Verified User Chose Amazon S3 Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is the only AWS offering for object storage. DynamoDB is fantastic for unstructured data but does not handle object storage. The relational database service (RDS) is excellent but only applies to use cases with structured table data, and does … Incentivized Helpful? Bob Smith Technical Co-Founder in Corporate at Infofree.com (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon S3 We originally were looking between FTP and Amazon S3 as a storage location for customer-created files. FTP had been used for years, but as it was a new product were didn't understand how much utilization would be needed. Amazon S3 won out because it was easier to integrate into … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon S3 As most of our work loads and the under laying platforms are build on EMR, Spark and AWS Lambda, we did not find HDFS a suitable solution to have all of our data in. HDFS was very costly as we had to maintain data nodes only for the sole purpose of maintaining the extra storage … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon S3 We chose S3 over Azure Storage because it integrated very easily and quickly with our existing AWS environment. S3 pricing was also cheaper than Azure at the time. S3 is also more mature and has been on the market 10 years longer than Azure Storage. Amazon also offers a higher … Incentivized Helpful? Corwin Cole CTO & COO in Information Technology at Apruvd (Financial Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon S3 I did not review or test with any other services. We started this business as a loyal and excited AWS customer and we remain the same today. Incentivized Helpful? Anudeep P Software Developer in Information Technology at Monsanto Company (Farming, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon S3 I haven't been personally involved in the decision to use S3, but in comparison to Dropbox or Google Drive, this offers a less robust UI to modify things, while being a cheaper storage mechanism over the rest. Incentivized Helpful? Yanan Wang Software Developer in Engineering at TrueCar, Inc. (Internet, 501-1000 employees) Chose Amazon S3 Amazon S3 is where you want to default to if you want to store a large amount of data. Compared to formatted data that you can store in Amazon RDS or DynamoDB, you can store your data in any format you want on S3. And the data retention policy can be really useful if you use S3 … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Amazon RDS

Amazon S3

Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Feature	Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) - Ratings	Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) 9.0 8 Ratings
Universal recovery	00 Ratings	9.07 Ratings
Instant recovery	00 Ratings	7.97 Ratings
Recovery verification	00 Ratings	8.05 Ratings
Business application protection	00 Ratings	8.65 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations	00 Ratings	9.47 Ratings
Incremental backup identification	00 Ratings	9.33 Ratings
Backup to the cloud	00 Ratings	9.48 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression	00 Ratings	8.73 Ratings
Snapshots	00 Ratings	9.55 Ratings
Flexible deployment	00 Ratings	9.28 Ratings
Management dashboard	00 Ratings	8.18 Ratings
Platform support	00 Ratings	8.78 Ratings
Retention options	00 Ratings	10.05 Ratings
Encryption	00 Ratings	9.86 Ratings

Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Feature	Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) - Ratings	Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) 8.8 8 Ratings
Continuous data protection	00 Ratings	9.48 Ratings
Replication	00 Ratings	9.27 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics	00 Ratings	8.48 Ratings
Malware protection	00 Ratings	8.02 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities	00 Ratings	9.58 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings

User Ratings
	Amazon RDS	Amazon S3
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (130 ratings)	9.2 (74 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.4 (5 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (7 ratings)	7.6 (12 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	7.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.6 (13 ratings)	9.8 (21 ratings)
Online Training	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)