- Managed Service:
- Automated provisioning and OS patching.
- Continuous backups + Point-in-Time Restore.
- Monitoring via CloudWatch and Performance Insights.
- Maintenance windows for controlled updates.
- High Availability & Scalability:
- Read replicas for scaling read workloads.
- Multi-AZ deployments for disaster recovery.
- Easy vertical/horizontal scaling.
- Performance & Storage:
- EBS-backed storage (GP2/GP3, IO1/IO2).
- Automated storage scaling.
Limitation: No SSH access to the database host (unlike EC2).