Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) vs. PostgreSQL

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

288 Reviews and Ratings

PostgreSQL

336 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
PostgreSQL	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	PostgreSQL (alternately Postgres) is a free and open source object-relational database system boasting over 30 years of active development, reliability, feature robustness, and performance. It supports SQL and is designed to support various workloads flexibly.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon RDS

PostgreSQL

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	PostgreSQL
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Optional

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Amazon RDS	PostgreSQL
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Verified User Chose Amazon RDS Deploying PostgreSQL by yourself may appear easy at first but running a production PostgreSQL cluster with millions of records is a hard task, especially for compliance, scalability, and security. RDS automates all complex tasks so you can focus on building your database schema … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon RDS We needed to use PostgreSQL due to it being the database engine that our application vendor uses. Once we were constrained on the database engine choice then Microsoft products (eg. SQL Server), whether on premise or in the cloud, were not appropriate. Therefore the only … Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Reichelt Senior Project Manager in Information Technology at OnMetric (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon RDS The only direct comparison that I have professionally would be from a past life where we ran Microsoft SQL Server on Microsoft Servers, and while I served as a technical liaison between a vendor and my customers, there were constant issues within my customers' technical teams … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon RDS There are a lot of factor we took into consideration the most important ones are: Ease of use and setup - Compared to other similar options Amazon RDS is very easy to setup just clicking few options and its ready for POC and for production very easy and flexible Terraform … Incentivized Helpful? Prajwal Shetty Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer in Engineering at Databricks (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Amazon RDS With the latest serverless technology Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) has an edge over all its competitors, it works really fast with high log retention. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon RDS RDS seems to be the best cross-section between cost, availability, deployment and throughput. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon RDS Even though Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is costlier than postgre SQL, We prefer Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) just because of high performance and security features Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon RDS It is more suitable for our data structure and also has a lower management and implementation cost since we don`t have to do everything from scratch. It also offers great integration with other AWS services which makes it really good to work with. Incentivized Helpful? Guillermo Buritica System Administrator in Engineering at Whispir (Telecommunications, 501-1000 employees) Chose Amazon RDS The database are the same. just the managed part is easy as is performed by Amazons Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon RDS We used to have On-Premises servers with Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL databases. We used that for years, and we had a hard time and a lot of work involved in securing and updating the server. And not no mention that growth involves a lot of calculations and extra costs. … 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? Erlon Sousa Pinheiro Senior Devops Engineer in Information Technology at SOTI (Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Amazon RDS Actually you can have most of these tools through AWS Relational Database Service as they are basically those technologies provided as a service. It is way better to have those products provided as a service through a huge and reliable infrastructure like AWS. Incentivized Helpful? Bob Smith Tech Co-Founder in Corporate at Infofree.com (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon RDS It's hard to identify how Amazon RDS stacks up against the databases they support, because to install and use a relational database in a production environment you need a Database Administrator to help install, configure and manage. Amazon RDS keeps the details simple enough … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon RDS RDS implements the databases we were interested in and allows us to focus on the application and not the management. AWS handles setting up the server and the database as well as upgrading the software when necessary. Security is simple, using security groups to allow or deny … Incentivized Helpful? Gabriel Samaroo Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Rocketrip (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon RDS Amazon Relational Database Service will probably give you everything you need from a traditional manual DB setup, except everything is managed for you. The only downside is having to pay the premium for the service; however, the trade-off of not having to deal with the … Incentivized Helpful? Dharma raju DevOps Engineer/Linux Admin in Information Technology at Vidyayug (Education Management, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon RDS Automated snap-shotting every 24 hours is, again something that I could just set up in minutes with a few clicks, though we also backup on cron jobs to elsewhere, and, because of our industry we have a HUGE "forensic logs" that initially live in the database but get archived … Incentivized Helpful? Valeri Karpov Software Engineer in Engineering at Booster Fuels (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon RDS Redshift is massively scalable but has some limitations that we weren't willing to accept (no JSONB). It also has its own distinct flavor of SQL, and there isn't as much content online about Redshift's flavor of SQL versus postgres'. In the end, we just didn't need to kind of … Incentivized Helpful? Josh Q Lead AWS Systems Architect in Information Technology at Turing Group (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon RDS Much less administration overhead with RDS. Incentivized Helpful?	PostgreSQL Global Development Group Verified User Chose PostgreSQL I found PostgreSQL to be better compared to MySQL. The community support is very good. Some features that I feel are not present in MySQL are: No referential integrity. No constraints (CHECK). Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Amazon RDS	PostgreSQL
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (130 ratings)	9.1 (54 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.4 (5 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (7 ratings)	9.1 (7 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	7.0 (1 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.6 (13 ratings)	9.3 (7 ratings)
Online Training	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)