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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

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What is Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL?

Amazon RDS manages complex and time-consuming administrative tasks such as PostgreSQL software installation and upgrades, storage management, replication for high availability and back-ups for disaster recovery. With just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, you can deploy a PostgreSQL database with automatically configured database parameters for optimal performance. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database instances can be provisioned with either standard storage or Provisioned IOPS storage. Once provisioned, you can scale from 10GB to 3TB of storage and from 1,000 IOPS to 30,000 IOPS.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL is a tool in the Relational Databases category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Monitoring and Metrics –Amazon RDS provides Amazon CloudWatch metrics for you DB Instance deployments at no additional charge.DB Event Notifications –Amazon RDS provides Amazon SNS notifications via email or SMS for your DB Instance deployments.Automatic Software Patching – Amazon RDS will make sure that the PostgreSQL software powering your deployment stays up-to-date with the latest patches.Automated Backups – Turned on by default, the automated backup feature of Amazon RDS enables point-in-time recovery for your DB Instance.DB Snapshots – DB Snapshots are user-initiated backups of your DB Instance.Pre-configured Parameters – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL deployments are pre-configured with a sensible set of parameters and settings appropriate for the DB Instance class you have selected.PostGISLanguage Extensions :PL/Perl, PL/pgSQL, PL/TclFull Text Search DictionariesAdvanced Data Types : HStore, JSONCore PostgreSQL engine features

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pros & Cons

Pros of Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

  • ✓Easy setup, backup, monitoring
  • ✓Geospatial support
  • ✓Master-master replication using Multi-AZ instance

Cons of Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

No cons listed yet.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL?

Heroku Postgres

Heroku Postgres

Heroku Postgres provides a SQL database-as-a-service that lets you focus on building your application instead of messing around with database management.

Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL

Google Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL

With Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, you can spend less time on your database operations and more time on your applications.

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Azure Database for PostgreSQL provides a managed database service for app development and deployment that allows you to stand up a PostgreSQL database in minutes and scale on the fly – on the cloud you trust most.

Neon Database

Neon Database

It is a fully managed serverless PostgreSQL. Neon separates storage and compute to offer modern developer features such as serverless, branching, bottomless storage, and more.

ElephantSQL

ElephantSQL

ElephantSQL hosts PostgreSQL on Amazon EC2 in multiple regions and availability zones. The servers are continuously transferring the Write-Ahead-Log (the transaction log) to S3 for maximum reliability.

Database Labs

Database Labs

We manage an optimized Postgres image. You focus on your core app, not on becoming a database administrator.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Integrations

Backand, Cluvio, AWS Secrets Manager, Crossplane, SignalFx and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.

Backand
Backand
Cluvio
Cluvio
AWS Secrets Manager
AWS Secrets Manager
Crossplane
Crossplane
SignalFx
SignalFx
Redash
Redash
AWS Glue
AWS Glue
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB
GoLand
GoLand
Stitch
Stitch
Cloudcraft
Cloudcraft
AWS Outposts
AWS Outposts

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Discussions

Discover why developers choose Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.Showing 4 of 5 discussions.

Dieter Vekeman
Dieter Vekeman

Developer at Tinkhaven

May 16, 2019

Needs adviceonAmazon RDS for PostgreSQLAmazon RDS for PostgreSQL

Hosting the main relational DB engine

  • Scalable
  • Accessed by the backend (AWS EC2)
  • Automatic minor upgrades
  • Automated daily backups

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

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Jack Graves
Jack Graves

CEO at Automation Consultants

Mar 26, 2019

Needs adviceonPostgreSQLPostgreSQLAmazon RDS for PostgreSQLAmazon RDS for PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL provides our primary storage backend for storing relational data. It is hosted using Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.

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bpr-admin
bpr-admin

Dec 21, 2018

Needs adviceonAWS Elastic BeanstalkAWS Elastic BeanstalkHerokuHerokuRubyRuby

We initially started out with Heroku as our PaaS provider due to a desire to use it by our original developer for our Ruby on Rails application/website at the time. We were finding response times slow, it was painfully slow, sometimes taking 10 seconds to start loading the main page. Moving up to the next "compute" level was going to be very expensive.

We moved our site over to AWS Elastic Beanstalk , not only did response times on the site practically become instant, our cloud bill for the application was cut in half.

In database world we are currently using Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL also, we have both MariaDB and Microsoft SQL Server both hosted on Amazon RDS. The plan is to migrate to AWS Aurora Serverless for all 3 of those database systems.

Additional services we use for our public applications: AWS Lambda, Python, Redis, Memcached, AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon ElastiCache

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Mark Walle
Mark Walle

Apr 12, 2017

Needs adviceonAmazon RDS for PostgreSQLAmazon RDS for PostgreSQL

Using PostGIS to serve GeoJSON data for the Leaflet front-end. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

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