Posted On: Oct 7, 2015

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS) for MariaDB. HAQM RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale MariaDB deployments in the cloud. Through HAQM RDS, MariaDB is now available as a fully-managed service on AWS with up to 6TB of storage, 30,000 IOPS, and support for high-availability deployments. HAQM RDS automatically handles database tasks such as provisioning, patching, backup, recovery, failure detection, and repair; freeing you up to focus on your application.
MariaDB joins HAQM Aurora, MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL as the sixth relational database engine available to customers through HAQM RDS.

New customers can get started with a Free Usage Tier, which provides for one year free usage of HAQM RDS micro instance with 750 usage hours, 20GB of storage, and 10 million I/O requests per month. HAQM RDS for MariaDB is available in all commercial regions. You can start running production workloads from day one with high availability using Multi-AZ.

For more information about HAQM RDS for MariaDB, read the AWS blog and visit the HAQM RDS for MariaDB webpage