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What Should I Pay Attention to When Using RDS?

  1. DB instance operating systems (OSs) are invisible to you. Your applications can access a database only through an IP address and a port.
  2. Backups stored in Object Storage Service (OBS) and the Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) used by RDS are invisible on the console. They are accessible only to the RDS service's backend management system.
  3. Before viewing the DB instance list, ensure that the region is the same as the region where the DB instance is purchased.
  4. After creating RDS DB instances, you do not need to perform basic O&M operations, such as enabling HA and installing security patches. However, you must pay attention to:
    1. Whether the CPU, input/output operations per second (IOPS), and space of the RDS DB instance are sufficient. If any of these becomes insufficient, change the instance class or scale up the storage.
    2. Whether the performance of the RDS DB instances is adequate, a large number of slow query SQL statements exist, SQL statements need to be optimized, or any indexes are redundant or missing.
Parent Topic: Product Consulting