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It has been over three years since Amazon Web Services introduced its Relational Database Service (RDS). But until now, RDS has ostensibly been in “beta”—available only to a subset of customers. This ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...

To fend off Google's Cloud SQL, RDS adds multi-zone replication, 99.95% uptime. RDS was beta? I've been reading about it for a few months now pending our recent move to AWS and the word beta never ...