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What types of storage are supported by RDS?
Amazon RDS provides three storage types: General Purpose SSD (also known as gp2), Provisioned IOPS SSD (also known as io1), and magnetic (also known as standard).
Is RDS in memory?
Amazon RDS for MySQL also has an internal memory component (such as key_buffers_size or query_cache_size) that creates internal temporary tables to perform certain operations. When you’re using Amazon RDS for MySQL, make sure to understand how MySQL uses and allocates memory.
Which database engines are supported by Amazon RDS?
Amazon RDS is available on several database instance types – optimized for memory, performance or I/O – and provides you with six familiar database engines to choose from, including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database, and SQL Server.
Is RDS SaaS or PAAS?
Amazon RDS is a Software as a Service (SaaS) that provides a full featured relational database service similar to MySQL & Oracle and hosted entirely on the Amazon infrastructure.
What kind of storage engine does Amazon RDS for MySQL support?
Q: What storage engines does Amazon RDS for MySQL support? The Point-In-Time-Restore and Snapshot Restore features of Amazon RDS for MySQL require a crash-recoverable storage engine and are supported for InnoDB storage engine only.
What kind of storage is available for Amazon RDS?
For information about storage limits, see Amazon RDS DB instance storage . Scaling storage for Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server DB instances is supported only for General Purpose SSD or Provisioned IOPS SSD storage types.
Is the Federated storage engine supported in Amazon RDS?
Federated Storage Engine is currently not supported by Amazon RDS for MySQL. Q: What privileges are granted to the master user for an RDS MySQL DB instance? When you create a new DB instance, the default master user that you use gets certain privileges. See Master User Account Privileges in the Amazon RDS User Guide for a list of the privileges.
How to AutoScale storage for Amazon RDS instances?
If your workload is unpredictable, you can enable storage autoscaling for an Amazon RDS DB instance. To do so, you can use the Amazon RDS console, the Amazon RDS API, or the AWS CLI. For example, you might use this feature for a new mobile gaming application that users are adopting rapidly.