Today at VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware announced that the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) would soon be on VMware. With this service uses would be able to set up, operate, and scale databases in VMware-based software-defined data centers (SDDC) and hybrid environments as well as have the ability to migrate them to AWS or VMware Cloud on AWS. RDS can automate database management regardless of where it is deployed, having it on VMware will free up customers to focus on their core business.
Today at VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware announced that the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) would soon be on VMware. With this service uses would be able to set up, operate, and scale databases in VMware-based software-defined data centers (SDDC) and hybrid environments as well as have the ability to migrate them to AWS or VMware Cloud on AWS. RDS can automate database management regardless of where it is deployed, having it on VMware will free up customers to focus on their core business.
Relational databases are critical to most businesses around the world. While they are important they are also difficult to setup and maintain, expensive, and risky (a small mistake can lead to downtime). There are a handful of other issues that come with databases such as the need to create the database image, install the operating system, install packages, and set up the database. Like anything in IT, there needs to be multiple versions and supporting these and patching them as the business grows is tedious. Throw in security and compliance and that further adds to the headache of databases.
Amazon’s RDS is aimed at tackling all of the above while delivering high availability, durability, and security for databases running in AWS. Now Amazon will bring that experience to VMware-based data centers. According to the companies, Amazon RDS on VMware manages databases from ground to cloud, enabling access to AWS through a single, simple interface. Amazon RDS on VMware automates database provisioning, operating system and database patching, backup, point-in-time restore, storage and compute scaling, instance health monitoring, and failover. Now VMware customers can leverage Amazon RDS for low-cost, high availabglity hybrid deployments, database DR to AWS, read replica bursting to Amazon RDS in the AWS Cloud, and long-term database archival in Amazon S3.
Availability
Amazon RDS on VMware will support Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB databases and is expected to be available in the coming months.
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