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Amazon RDS vs Azure Cosmos DB

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Amazon RDS

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a managed database service from AWS that supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, and Db2 engines. It automates hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups with options for Multi-AZ deployments and read replicas.

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Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed, multi-model database service by Microsoft offering single-digit millisecond latency and 99.999% availability SLA. It supports document, key-value, graph, and column-family data models with multiple API options.

DatabasesFreemium

Quick Facts

Amazon RDS

CompanyAmazon Web Services
Year Launched2009
Pricing ModelPaid
Open SourceNo
CategoryDatabases
PlatformsWeb

Azure Cosmos DB

CompanyMicrosoft
Year Launched2017
Pricing ModelFreemium
Open SourceNo
CategoryDatabases
PlatformsWeb

Pricing

Amazon RDS

Paid

Pay-As-You-Go: Usage-based/monthly

Azure Cosmos DB

Freemium

Free Tier: 0

Serverless: usage-based/monthly

Provisioned Throughput: usage-based/monthly

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