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Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) creates a MySQL database server in the cloud. The notion of “database as a service” is already a reality, thanks to products like FathomDB. Amazon itself ...

In 2009, AWS pioneered fully-managed cloud database services for open-source database management systems (DBMS) with the launch of Amazon Relational Database Service, or Amazon RDS. The ambition was ...

Four years ago, moving a database to the cloud required courage, optimism, and confidence (or ignorance). Cloud platforms were young, and fundamental security, performance, and management issues were ...

Amazon is arming VMware partners with its database-agnostic Relational Database Service (RDS) that allows them to easily set up, operate and scale databases in VMware-based environments that are ...