AWS provides various methods for encrypting AWS RDS resources which includes encrypting data-at-rest in the underlying DB instances, automated backups, read replicas, and snapshots.

Coming soon, Amazon Relational Database Service on VMware will bring the capabilities of RDS to VMware customers.

In 2009, AWS pioneered fully-managed cloud database services for open-source database management systems (DBMS) with the launch of Amazon Relational Database Service, or Amazon RDS. The ambition was ...