Pro .NET on Amazon Web Services: Guidance and Best Practices for Building and Deployment

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W. Penberthy, S. RobertsPro .NET on Amazon Web Serviceshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8907-5_9

9. Other RDS Databases

William Penberthy¹   and Steve Roberts¹

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Seattle, WA, USA

 

For .NET developers, SQL Server is likely the most well-known of the database engines available in RDS. However, it is certainly not the only one! There are five other different relational databases where AWS offers a managed version: MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, and Oracle. There are several reasons that you may choose to use one of these other databases, whether it is because of other existing systems that use the database, such as the plethora of applications ...