What is Amazon RDS?

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks, such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups.

Benefits of RDS for Collaborate

• Speed
  • Can be optimized for high performance & high load from heavy reporting requirements
  • Separates the database & the application onto their own servers that can each be tuned for best performance
• Security
  • Allows for more granular permissions to be applied to better embrace The Principle of Least Privilege
  • All databases are already encrypted at rest, but RDS also supports this security requirement
• Cost effective - storage is charged for based on usage & auto scales up
• Easy to administer - Less time spent managing systems is more time spent improving other areas
• Highly scalable & reliable - allows for read replicas to offload heavy read traffic like reporting
• Networks have option to purchase fail-over replicas feature if 100% guaranteed uptime is required

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