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title: "Hire RDS Specialists, a Managed Offshore Database Team"
description: "RDS specialists know what AWS handles for you and what it does not, from backups to tuning. A dedicated database specialist, managed from Thailand."
url: "https://azendo.co/skills/rds/"
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# RDS specialists for your dedicated team.

RDS is AWS's managed relational database service, running Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server and Oracle. AWS handles provisioning, patching, backups, replication and failover; schema, queries and capacity remain the operator's responsibility.

## Where RDS fits in a long-term product team.

RDS removes the operational work most teams find hardest: backups that are taken, patches that are applied and failover that works. That is a real reduction in risk, and the main reason to use it over a self-managed instance.

What it does not remove is everything that decides whether the database performs. Schema design, indexing, query efficiency, connection management and instance sizing are all still yours, and a managed database with a bad schema is simply a bad schema that somebody else patches.

## What your dedicated team does with RDS.

Connection management is the failure mode teams meet first at scale. Relational databases have a hard connection limit, and application instances that each hold a pool will exhaust it well before the database is otherwise stressed.

Sizing that correctly, and adding pooling before it causes an incident, sits with a [dedicated data engineering team](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-data-engineering-team/) when the data layer is the constraint.

## Common RDS use cases.

* Backups and failover that are real Automated backups and multi-AZ failover, tested regularly.
* Connection limits planned for Pooling introduced before instance count exhausts the database's capacity.
* Read load separated Replicas for reporting and analytics, so heavy queries do not affect the transactional path.

## Adding RDS skills to your team.

Managed database work sits between platform and data engineers, owned by whichever side holds the constraint.

RDS specialists join your team remotely as dedicated, full-time team members, selected, employed and managed by us in Chiang Mai and Bangkok. Companies that [hire offshore developers](https://azendo.co/hire-a-dedicated-development-team-in-thailand/) through Azendo add the skill when the product calls for it.

## Roles that use RDS

* [Cloud Engineer Cloud and DevOps](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/cloud-engineer/)

## Service areas that use RDS

* [Cloud and DevOps](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-cloud-and-devops-team/)

Capacity is agreed across your whole team, with one monthly fee, not per skill.

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## Tell us what you need RDS for.

A service delivery manager will reply with the specialists we'd suggest, the monthly capacity and what the first month looks like.

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