AWS RDS

Amazon's Relational Database Service - provides these types of databases:

  1. MariaDB
  2. SQL Server
  3. MySQL
  4. Oracle
  5. PostgreSQL
  6. Aurora (Amazon's own)

DB hosting options:

  1. Self Host
  2. IaaS
  3. PaaS

Region

You have to choose a region when setting up an RDS database.

DB Instance Class Types

  1. Standard
  2. Memory Optimized
  3. Burstable Performance