Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) vs. Snowflake

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

288 Reviews and Ratings

Snowflake

373 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
Snowflake	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	The Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon RDS

Snowflake

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	Snowflake
Free Trial
No	Yes
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	Snowflake
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Rohan Kumar Software Engineer in Information Technology at Mytechcasa (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon RDS Installing, configuring, and managing Oracle Database can be challenging, especially for people who are new to Oracle products. Longer learning curves and higher operational overhead can be caused by this complexity. Amazon Relational Database Service is easy to understand and … Incentivized Helpful? David Williams Head of Engineering in Information Technology at Damstra Technology (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon RDS Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is an excellent option for those using AWS already, and provides a scalable, performant, database engine. Unlike Azure SQL Server it has a limit on the number of databases you can hold. However, if you're already in the AWS ecosystem it … Incentivized Helpful?	Snowflake Computing Carlos Fares, CBIP Director of Business Intelligence in Engineering at CareCloud (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 201-500 employees) Chose Snowflake Instant provisioning of computing resources and data sharing is something we have not seen with any other vendor. Being HIPAA compliant at the time of evaluation was a must for us. Other vendors were late on this. Onboarding on support during implementation was also excellent. Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Amazon RDS	Snowflake
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (130 ratings)	9.2 (43 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.4 (5 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (7 ratings)	9.3 (19 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	7.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.6 (13 ratings)	9.9 (8 ratings)
Online Training	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)