--- description: Get information about Amazon RDS price, usability & features from verified user experiences. Read reviews from Indian business users & discover similar tools. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Amazon RDS Price, Features, Reviews & Ratings - Capterra India --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Database Software](/directory/18/database-management/software) > [Amazon RDS](/software/192201/amazon-rds) # Amazon RDS Canonical: https://www.capterra.in/software/192201/amazon-rds Page: 1 / 10\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.in/software/192201/amazon-rds?page=2) > Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a database, including Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL > > Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 220 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Amazon RDS? Application developers, database administrators, system administrators, DevOps engineers ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 220 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Amazon Web Services (AWS) - **Location**: Seattle, US - **Founded**: 2006 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: $0.01 - **Pricing model**: Per Feature (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Amazon RDS is free to try, and users only pay for what they use. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR China, India, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - Access Controls/Permissions - Alerts/Notifications - Backup and Recovery - Dashboard Software - Data Replication - Multiple Programming Languages Supported - Performance Monitoring ## Integrations (2 total) - Amazon Aurora - Amazon EC2 ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - Chat ## Category - [Database Software](https://www.capterra.in/directory/18/database-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Database Software](https://www.capterra.in/directory/18/database-management/software) - [Database Monitoring Software](https://www.capterra.in/directory/31775/database-monitoring/software) - [Data Entry Software](https://www.capterra.in/directory/30543/data-entry/software) - [Data Center Management Software](https://www.capterra.in/directory/10054/data-center-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[Oracle Database](https://www.capterra.in/software/5938/oracle-database) — 4.6/5 (473 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Scalable & Reliable But Hard To Configure" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *7 March 2025* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: It supports multiple database engines like PostgreSQL, Aurora, and MySQL > > **Cons**: It is costly for high performance workloads and complex while setting up in multi AZ deployments. > > It provides seamless database management but limited control over configurations. ----- ### "Simple, Reliable, and Ready-to-Use Database Solution" — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *13 February 2025* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: One of the best thing about it is that no configuration \& setup required in order to work with any database, it could be relational or non relational DB eg: MySQL, MongoDB, SQL or Oracle anything with just few clicks on aws console we can start working. > > **Cons**: There are no major issue but pricing model comparison to on premise setup is costly \& cluster updates sometimes delay the business operation \& any production deployment. ----- ### "Overall Good Experience" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *20 February 2025* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: RDS giving lot of features with better performance. > > **Cons**: Doing setup become little bit difficult. ----- ### "One of the best managed services for Postgres" — 4.0/5 > **Prateek** | *7 January 2026* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: I've mainly used Amazon RDS for Postgres so can't speak for other database engines. For Postgres the most liked thing about RDS is how quickly they make the major versions available. You don't have to wait too long to try out latest Postgres updates when you are with RDS > > **Cons**: Couple of drawbacks with RDS I've seen over the years - there is not a great way to enable encryption if you started of with an unencrypted database. You need to create a new database and migrate all your data - same applies for reducing storage of the database, you can increase the storage but cannot lower the storage - columnar extensions are not made available on RDS - > > Overall the experience has been wonderful with RDS. Given that it's managed service it serves you really well with High Availability, Disaster recovery, Replication The Blue green deployment is also a really good feature for testing out schema related or major version changes. This was really helpful when moving away from Older versions of Postgres for larger DBs Reserved Instances is another option you can use to save some dollars if you know about your workloads ----- ### "Great when you need a database engine with dynamic sizing." — 5.0/5 > **Esteban** | *2 September 2026* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The autoscaling feature has been a huge benefit for us. At Eventtia we have strong peaks of traffic because our users host thousands of events. Being able to increase and decrease the size of the database on demand is just great. > > **Cons**: Sometimes it can be a little bit expensive, specially if you run a lot of time with a lot of units. But if you are able to keep it at a base level, you will be fine. > > It's been great. We used to suffer by having to expand or decrease the size of the database a lot of times during the month. 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