Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) vs. Microsoft Access

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

288 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Access

842 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
Microsoft Access	Score7.7 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Access is a database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools.	$139.99 per PC

Pricing

Amazon RDS

Microsoft Access

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)

Microsoft Access: $139.99
per PC

Pricing Offerings
Amazon RDS	Microsoft Access
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	Microsoft Access
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Verified User Chose Amazon RDS Amazon Relational Database is more reliable and effective than the one I am using. Amazon Relational Database has more storage capacity and is easily accessible. Amazon Relational Database has multiple options. Amazon Relational Database cloud services are excellent. From the … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft No answer on this topic
	Would buy again
	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
	Delivers good value for the price
	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
	Happy with the feature set
	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Amazon RDS	Microsoft Access
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (130 ratings)	5.0 (99 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.4 (5 ratings)	10.0 (15 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (7 ratings)	7.0 (5 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	7.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.6 (13 ratings)	6.4 (5 ratings)
Online Training	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.0 (1 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)