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35. RDS

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RDS#

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a managed service that runs relational databases in the cloud. The problem it solves is operational: running a production-grade relational database requires provisioning hardware, installing software, configuring backups, applying patches, and managing failover — none of which is differentiated work for most applications. RDS handles all of that, so you interact with a standard SQL database engine while AWS takes care of the infrastructure underneath. 🔗

36. Aurora

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Aurora#

Amazon Aurora is a cloud-native relational database engine built by AWS from the ground up to overcome the performance and availability limitations of traditional relational databases. It is fully compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, meaning your existing drivers, tools, and queries work without modification. Aurora solves a core problem: standard relational databases weren’t designed with distributed cloud infrastructure in mind, so AWS re-architected the storage and replication layers entirely. The result is a managed database that delivers up to 5× the throughput of MySQL and 3× that of PostgreSQL, while offering durability and availability that would be complex and costly to achieve on your own. 🔗

37. ElastiCache

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