AWS service detail

Choosing an AWS database service

Database

Choose the right AWS database service

DatabaseProduction guidance

Production use

Use for durable production data stores, caches, search stores, and relational or NoSQL persistence.

Before production

  • Enable backups/PITR
  • Multi-AZ where available
  • encryption
  • migrations
  • connection pooling
  • monitoring
  • capacity planning
  • restore drills.