AWS Database Landscape – strong portfolio of Databases in the Cloud
AWS has a decent set of offerings when it comes to Database. They provide most of the commonly used database-types on their platform – either as a managed service, or alternatively you can take your database and host it on EC2 yourself.
Following table show-cases their database landscape:
In most cases it would make sense to go with their managed service option – that way you are dropping the need to attend to maintenance of the database, and more importantly dropping the need to continuously architect the scalability part of it.
For more details, please follow the link to database-specific page:
- Amazon RDS
- Amazon Aurora
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon Document DB
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon Neptune
- Amazon Timestream
- Amazon QLDB
- Amazon ElastiCache (for Memcached, and for Redis)
- Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)
