How to: RDS Basics
-	📒 [Homepage](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/) ∙ [User guide](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/) ∙ [FAQ](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/) ∙ [Pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing/) (see also [ec2instances.info/rds/](http://www.ec2instances.info/rds/)\)
-	**RDS** is a managed relational database service, allowing you to deploy and scale databases more easily. It supports [Oracle](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/oracle/), [Microsoft SQL Server](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/sqlserver/), [PostgreSQL](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/), [MySQL](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/mysql/), [MariaDB](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/mariadb/), and Amazon’s own [Aurora](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/).
-	RDS offers out of the box support for [high availability and failover](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Concepts.MultiAZ.html) for your databases.

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