BrandPost: Relational Database Services – Not Quite as Simple as They Seem

Of all of the various ways in which companies can leverage cloud computing, establishing a cloud-based relational database would seem to be among the most straightforward. While companies may choose to set up their own database servers in the cloud, they can alternatively just purchase a relational database as a service, such as RDS offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). What could be simpler?Well, as you might guess, things aren’t quite as simple as they may first appear.First the good ne