We performed a comparison between Amazon RDS and IBM Db2 on Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, MongoDB and others in Database as a Service."I recommend RDS because it makes your life super easy."
"Amazon RDS is easy to maintain and easy to deploy."
"The solution has unique features like backup and recovery, and snapshots. It upgrades automatically. The solution offers easy analytics concerning performance metrics. Its reliability and scalability are very good. The tool's most valuable features are disaster recovery, high availability and scalability."
"Amazon RDS handles database backup mechanisms and patch management."
"Amazon RDS is a scalable solution."
"Amazon RDS gives us the ability to select as many tools, replicas, regions, and zones as we want."
"Amazon RDS is quite a well-managed and stable service...The initial setup was very easy."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a fully managed database, where they handle most of the administrative tasks and leaves the users more time to concentrate on business."
"The reliability is the most valuable feature. It is also user-friendly."
"AWS support is decent, but it's not as good as before. Sometimes, we get junior staff who are unable to answer our questions. It also depends on the support team you get. Support based in Europe and Australia is better than US support. For example, European support is quick to deliver the right answer. US support handles routine maintenance issues, and it's mostly junior staff who don't know the product well."
"With my limited experience, I have noticed that documentation management could be improved. It could be better."
"A lot of the features are disabled by default. The solution should enable more features. I understand this could cause challenges to management for many clients using RDS, however."
"There are a few aspects of database management that have room for improvement. There are a few parameters in the solution that are a bit unclear at our end as it's not understandable."
"The solution's connectivity and response logs could be improved."
"Technical support could be better."
"The product should support new databases."
"Amazon RDS could improve by having more sophisticated. I use other solutions that have better technology for more difficult tasks."
"I would give their support a ten if they had more tutorials available."
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Amazon RDS is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 45 reviews while IBM Db2 on Cloud is ranked 12th in Database as a Service. Amazon RDS is rated 8.4, while IBM Db2 on Cloud is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Amazon RDS writes "Provides excellent authentication, authorization, integration, data protection, and autoscaling features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Db2 on Cloud writes "Reliable and user-friendly ". Amazon RDS is most compared with MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud SQL, SQL Azure and Oracle Database as a Service, whereas IBM Db2 on Cloud is most compared with SQL Azure and Google Cloud SQL.
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