AWS RDS for MySQL

MySQL is the world's most popular open-source relational database, and Amazon RDS makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale MySQL deployments in the cloud. With Amazon RDS, you can deploy scalable MySQL servers in minutes with cost-efficient and resizable hardware capacity.

Amazon RDS for MySQL frees you up to focus on application development by managing time-consuming database administration tasks, including backups, upgrades, software patching, performance improvements, monitoring, scaling, and replication.

Amazon RDS supports MySQL Community Edition versions 5.7 and 8.0, which means that the code, applications, and tools you already use today can be used with Amazon RDS.

Self-managed MySQL on Amazon EC2

Historically, relational databases have been on-premises, and as database workloads moved to the cloud, organizations initially leveraged Amazon EC2 to run their own databases. With this approach, you have to manage all of the usual administration tasks that accompany an on-premises database such as hardware provisioning, database setup, tuning, patching, backups, and scaling.

Fully Managed MySQL on Amazon RDS

Amazon offers a fully managed relational database service, Amazon RDS for MySQL, available for trial at no cost with the AWS Free Tier. Amazon RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale MySQL deployments in the cloud. With Amazon RDS, you can deploy internet-scale MySQL deployments in minutes, with cost-efficient and resizable hardware capacity.

Getting started with Amazon RDS for MySQL is simple: