At a high-level, RDS streamlines setup, operation, and scaling relational databases in AWS, such as MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and others. RDS, much like any other AWS or cloud service ...

For example, AWS offers two good options for running a SQL database in the cloud: RDS and EC2. Both enable building a database in a VPC secure environment, support applications with high performance ...

At re:Invent, AWS debuted DevOps Guru for RDS to automatically find and fix database issues, as well as AWS Database Fleet Advisor to automate migration planning for a whole fleet of databases.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server is a like-for-like (homogeneous) migration and the least complex migration to begin to reap the efficiencies of AWS technologies for a fast and reliable database option.