Data is a valuable resource for any modern business.
Information about customers, operations, products, and services is crucial for a company’s day-to-day success as well as its survival.
It is crucial to be able to store, retrieve, and secure data efficiently. This will make it possible for customers to have exceptional experiences and optimize processes.
It is important to choose the right way of managing data because it is so critical. AWS offers cloud customers more database options than ever before.
It is easier to find the right database for your business without compromise if you are familiar with the advantages and drawbacks of each.
Let’s take an in-depth look at AWS’ databases so you can choose the one that best suits your data needs.
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Redshift
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon Neptune
Amazon DocumentDB
Amazon TimeStream
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database
AWS Databases Currently, AWS has 14 database engines. Each one is purpose-built and can be used for a variety of purposes. AWS offers so many options that it aims to help businesses avoid a monolithic approach that doesn’t work for all. They can choose the right database for their job, even if they have to run multiple concurrently.
Why use an AWS database then? Marc Weaver, founder of databasable, says “Why wouldn’t it use a cloud database?”
It takes care of setup, availability and backups and recovery. It also manages overhead and licensing. It also simplifies the update process. It’s a win/win-win situation.
Marc says flexibility is the main reason, “aside from managing most of the management tasks,” Marc adds. You can easily experiment with different database platforms (SQL Server and MySQL, Mariadb, among others). You can also experiment with different database types (SQL Server, MySQL, Mariadb, etc.) such as NoSQL databases, data warehouses, time series, and SQLL. You don’t have to commit to hardware or licensing costs. You only pay what you use, and can cancel at any time without long-term commitments.
Ido Neeman (CEO at Nuweba, a serverless platform developer) agrees that there are many compelling reasons to store data in the cloud.
They are distributed and disaster-safe. They use multi-region replication and encrypted to protect against data loss and security threats. AWS databases are self-monitoring, auto-healing, scale automatically, so you can ensure maximum up-time for your workloads.
“They are also cost-effective: it depends on the service but most cloud databases use a pay as-you-go model so that you only pay for the usage and requirements of a business,” says Ido.
They are also scalable, so you can easily increase I/O operations and storage capacity. The provider handles security. Usually, the provider maintains the service with security patches. Software updates are also available so that the business doesn’t have to. These services allow businesses to save time and money while still providing a worry-free service.
Ido recommends that businesses consider the level of usability they require from AWS and then choose the best service based on its functionality.
He says that organizations should also consider how scalable the service should become and decide whether the pricing model is in line with its cost strategy. Last but not least, performance and speed should be considered. Low performance can lead to poor user experience, high costs, and damage to the entire architecture.”
There are more than a dozen database engine options available, so you can be certain you will get high performance regardless of which engine you choose. What’s most important is I