The ScaleBase private beta was first announced on January 1, and since then dozens of customers have registered for the program. The company is now seeking additional users of MySQL on Amazon EC2 and ...

At a high-level, RDS streamlines setup, operation, and scaling relational databases in AWS, such as MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and others.

With Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS, we can quickly locate database queries in our application that are causing the performance or operational issues along with an explanation of why it’s happening.” ...

When using the RDS service in AWS, developers can take RDS snapshots. This is a storage volume snapshot that backs up the entire database instance (not just individual databases).