Amazon RDS for MariaDB gives you full access to all the capabilities of the MariaDB open source database engine. This means that the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing MariaDB databases can be used with your Amazon RDS MariaDB database. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a retention period you define and enables point-in-time recovery. You benefit from the flexibility of being able to scale the compute resources or storage capacity associated with your Database Instance (DB Instance) via a single API call.

Amazon RDS for MariaDB DB Instances can be provisioned with General Purpose (SSD) storage or Provisioned IOPS (SSD) storage. Provisioned IOPS (SSD) is a high performance storage option designed to deliver fast, predictable, and consistent performance for I/O intensive transactional database workloads. You can provision from 1,000 IOPS to 40,000 IOPS per DB Instance (Maximum realized IOPS may be lower). General Purpose (SSD) storage delivers a consistent baseline of 3 IOPS per provisioned GB and provides the ability to burst up to 3,000 IOPS.

In addition, Amazon RDS for MariaDB makes it easy to enhance the availability and reliability of your production workloads by automating replication across AWS availability zones. Using the Multi-AZ deployment option you can run mission critical workloads with high availability and built-in automated fail-over from your primary database to a synchronously replicated secondary database located in a separate Availability Zone (AZ), in case of a failure. Amazon RDS for MariaDB also provides a capability to create read-replicas which enables you to scale out beyond the capacity of a single database deployment for read-heavy database workloads.