How to Build Your Own Amazon RDS
Replace Amazon RDS with a custom build. Fully Managed Relational Database – Easy to manage relational databases optimized for total cost of ownership
Build Difficulty: 4/5
A few focused days to build a solid replacement
Estimated Timeline
Based on 39 features at Few Days difficulty, expect about 3-5 days with AI-assisted development.
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Key Features to Replicate
Top features across 8 categories. See all 39 features
Management(5 features)
Automates undifferentiated tasks including software patching, backing up, provisioning, and scheduling maintenance jobs
Centrally manage and stagger automatic minor version upgrades across multiple AWS resources and accounts
Granular control and fine-tuning of database configurations
Create production-ready relational databases in minutes using AWS Management Console, CLI, SDKs, or API calls
Optional control over when and if database instances are patched
Monitoring(4 features)
Easy-to-use tool that helps quickly detect and diagnose database performance problems
Consolidates logs and metrics from applications, databases, and operating systems with pre-built dashboards and automated telemetry collection
Support for Amazon CloudWatch metrics for database instances at no additional charge with unified console view
Access to over 50 CPU, memory, file system, and disk I/O metrics for database instances
Performance(3 features)
Provide up to 2x faster query processing for complex queries using temporary tables, sorts, hash aggregations, and joins
Improve write transaction throughput by up to 2x using AWS Nitro System Torn Write Prevention, especially useful for write-intensive workloads
Add managed in-memory caching service directly from RDS console to accelerate database and application performance
Storage(3 features)
Support for high-performance EBS io2 Block Express storage for demanding workloads
Cost-effective SSD storage option with 3 IOPS per provisioned GB baseline and burst up to 3,000 IOPS, ranging from 20 GiB to 64 TiB
High-performance SSD storage for I/O-intensive workloads, scaling from 1,000 to 256,000 IOPS with 100 GiB to 64 TiB capacity
Backup & Recovery(2 features)
Automatically back up database and transaction logs with retention up to 35 days, allowing restoration to any second during retention period
User-initiated backups stored in Amazon S3, kept until explicitly deleted, with ability to create new instances from snapshots
Deployment Options(2 features)
Managed experience for applications requiring customization of underlying operating system and database environment
Deploy fully managed database instances in on-premises environments for hybrid deployments
Disaster Recovery(2 features)
Automatically replicate database snapshots and transaction logs across regions for disaster recovery
Replicate data across regions with free data transfer for replication in Multi-AZ deployments
High Availability(2 features)
Achieve high availability with SLA up to 99.95% through synchronous replication to standby instances in different Availability Zones
Deploy one primary and two readable standby instances across three AZs with failovers in under 35 seconds and 2x faster transaction commit latency
Cost Calculator
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