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Benefits and limitations of AWS RDS

23rd July 2020 By John McCormack 1 Comment

Benefits and limitations of AWS RDS

This short video details some benefits and limitations of AWS RDS. It’s not full SQL Server as you know, but it does a lot for you. I also go into some key AWS terminology which may help the those who are new to AWS, or the cloud in general. The video is only 5 minutes long. Once you watched it, you can get a more detailed list of unsupported features from the AWS documentation.

UPDATE: You can now use database mail with RDS – See this.

Benefits and limitations of AWS RDS video

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About John McCormack

John McCormack is an engineering manager at Docusign. He specialises in SRE and Database administration, and has extensive experience in all major public clouds.

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  1. Johnny says

    5th April 2021 at 6:58 pm

    Hello John, I just found your website and am a beginner with AWS although have worked as a DBA with SQL Server and Oracle for many years. I am just starting with cloud services and needed some overview.
    Thank you for the videos very informative !

    Johnny

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