Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) User Guide

by Amazon Web Services

NOTE – A new version of the Amazon Relational Database Service User Guide is available at This is official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a platform for running instances of MySQL, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server database engines, called DB Instances, in the cloud. This guide explains how to create and manage DB Instances by using the Query and SOAP programming interfaces, as well as a command-line interface. This documentation is offered for free here as a Kindle book, or you can read it online or in PDF format at

480 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 5, 2012