AWS & SRE Field Manual (Part 7): Amazon RDS Deep Dive: Architecture and High Availability
1. TL;DR & Problem Statement Definition: A fully managed database service providing automated provisioning, high availability, patching, backups, and horizontal read scalability for relational engines (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, and Amazon Aurora). Problem Solved: Eliminates the operational complexity, data-loss risk, and administrative overhead of running stateful database…
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a fully managed database service that automates provisioning, high availability, patching, backups, and horizontal read scalability for various relational engines such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, and Amazon Aurora. This architecture eliminates the operational complexity, data-loss risk, and administrative overhead associated with running stateful database clusters in self-managed containers or bare EC2 instances.
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