Overview

ApsaraDB RDS is an efficient, secure and stable relational database service on Alibaba Cloud, supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server and MariaDB engines. It has excellent price/performance ratio and elastic scalability, and provides one-stop solutions for disaster recovery, backup, recovery, intelligent monitoring and data migration, which can effectively solve the challenges of database operation and maintenance. It can also be easily integrated with AI and other applications, becoming a solid backbone for business innovation in the AI wave.

Benefits

High Availability Up to 99.99% availability guarantee, providing a variety of disaster recovery solutions to ensure zero data loss. Architecture Reliability: All series except single-node Basic series provides the option to allow multiple-AZ deployment, providing availability zone-level disaster recovery capability with availability up to 99.99%. Data Reliability: Cloud disk storage guarantees data availability through multi-copy redundancy. In addition, some engines are guaranteed through the application layer (e.g. MySQL MGR-based ApsaraDB RDS for MySQL Cluster series), which can realize RPO=0 and guarantee zero data loss. High Cost-Effectiveness Through a combination of software and hardware technology innovations, ApsaraDB RDS continues to optimize resource utilization, improving performance while reducing cost per unit of use. Software Cost Reduction: Introduced Serverless billing where users only pay for the resources they actually consume, saving up to 70% more. Hardware cost reduction: Introduced the ARM server-based Yitian Edition, which provides similar performance at a lower price compared to the Standard Edition that is x86 server-based, making it extremely cost-effective. High Security Provide multi-dimensional data security protection with a number of security compliance certifications to ensure data security. It supports in-transit encryption, query encryption, and data storage encryption, providing preemptive, in-transit, and post-transit full-link security controls to protect business data from data leakage and other security risks. In addition, it also supports the fully encrypted database feature, which allows you to encrypt data down to the column field dimension to further safeguard the security of sensitive data. Intelligent O&M Provide AI-enabled database operation and maintenance functions, which can intelligently predict, automatically expand capacity, and SQL tuning, improve the efficiency of database O&M, and significantly reduce operation and maintenance costs.