AWS Outposts And Amazon RDS
AWS launched Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) on AWS Outposts, its hybrid cloud offering, last month.
The new support allows customers to create fully managed relational database instances in their on-premises environments for low-latency workloads that must be in close proximity to on-premises data and applications. It also enables backup to an AWS cloud region and management of RDS databases in the cloud or om premises using the same AWS Management Console, APIs and command line interface.
AWS Outposts, which launched in December, extends AWS’ cloud infrastructure, services, APIs and tools into customers’ on-premises data centers or colocation sites with compute-and-storage server racks outfitted with AWS-designed hardware. The 11-year-old Amazon RDS makes it easier to set up, operate and scale a relational database in the cloud.
Amazon RDS on Outposts provides resizable capacity for on-premises databases and automates administration tasks including infrastructure provisioning, database setup, patching and backups. It launched with support for MySQL and PostgreSQL, and support for other database engines is “coming soon,” according to AWS.
“The late 2019 GA (general availability) of Outposts has been a huge thing for our customer base and our business,” said Onica’s Bird. “We think it‘s really big -- sort of Amazon redefining what hybrid computing is. But some of the problems with its initial sort of preview is it only did one or two things. RDS is…a huge use case for Outposts.”
