--- description: Get detailed information about Amazon RDS usability, features, price, benefits and disadvantages from verified user experiences. Read reviews and discover similar tools on Capterra United Arab Emirates. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Amazon RDS Price, Reviews & Ratings - Capterra United Arab Emirates 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Database Software](/directory/18/database-management/software) > [Amazon RDS](/software/192201/amazon-rds) # Amazon RDS Canonical: https://www.capterra.ae/software/192201/amazon-rds Page: 1 / 10\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ae/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 218 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** | 218 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 - **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.ae/directory/18/database-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Database Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/18/database-management/software) - [Database Monitoring Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/31775/database-monitoring/software) - [Data Entry Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/30543/data-entry/software) - [Data Center Management Software](https://www.capterra.ae/directory/10054/data-center-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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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 ----- ### "Simple solution to rapidly implement new platforms" — 5.0/5 > **Richard** | *30 May 2025* | Real Estate | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Ease of setup. Configuration and out-of-the-box setups allowed for the rapid testing and then replication and rollout across the business. Reduction in management tasks such as, automation of tasks, provisioning, patching, backups and Recovery. Failover with alerts to a reporting platform ensures issues are dealt with in a timely manner. > > **Cons**: On the odd occasion, we have had trouble diagnosing a performance issue, and access/management control. In particular, Lack of OS and Database Root Access. While RDS supports popular database engines (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MariaDB), the way AWS manages them introduces some proprietary elements. > > Overall, a simple way to start testing/piloting new applications with minimal support required. Ease of use, access, and speed to deploy. We also had issues migrating out of AWS due to a supplier changing platforms, we needed to migrate to MS Azure. ----- ### "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. ----- ### "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. ----- ### "Reliable, reliable, I/O cost are pricey, Aurora write forwarding is neat" — 4.0/5 > **Monica** | *9 June 2025* | Telecommunications | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: I use mostly RDS MySQL, RDS Postgresql, and RDS Aurora services. The multiple writers for Aurora is helpful to latency for global traffic. The service is reliable. I've only had 1 issue in the past 6 years with RDS. > > **Cons**: I wish the service was cheaper, especially Aurora. The I/O charges are killer. Other than that, it is a good relational database service. > > Overall, reliable RDS service. I wish the I/O costs were a little more affordable. 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