Cloud Computing: Amazon’s RDS database gets SLA, becomes generally available

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Mikael Ricknäs.

After three and a half years in operation, Amazon Web Services’ RDS is finally generally available, and users can also get a service-level agreement if they choose to run the database in multiple places. The combination of customer adoption, numerous new features and a lot of operational experience has taken RDS (Relational Database Service) to a level where Amazon thinks its mature enough to be made generally available. Until now, users could gain access to it under a beta testing program.

Just like Amazon’s other services, the hosted database service includes set-up, operations and scaling. For example, the service automatically patches the database software and backs up data. Code, applications, and tools that IT staff already use with their existing on-premise databases can also be used with RDS, according to Amazon…

The general availability comes with a service-level agreement (SLA) with 99.95 percent availability for Multi-AZ database instances on a monthly basis. That percentage equals a maximum of 22 minutes of downtime per instance and month. If availability falls below that level users are eligible for service credits…

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