Category | Feature | Regular RDS instance | Serverless |
RDS Cluster Edition | RDS High-availability Edition | RDS Basic Edition | RDS Basic Edition | RDS High-availability Edition |
ESSD | General ESSD | Local SSD | General ESSD | ESSD | General ESSD | ESSD | ESSD | ESSD |
Data migration | Data migration | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Data synchronization | Data synchronization | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Instance management | Instance creation | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Specification change - Regular instances - Serverless instances | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Automatic storage expansion | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Automatic performance scaling | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Cross-zone migration | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
Automatic or manual primary/secondary switchover | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ |
Query and change of the data replication mode | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ |
Usage of parameter templates | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Creation of disaster recovery instances | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Instance restart | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Automatic start and stop | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Instance suspension | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ️❌ | ❌ | ️❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Maintenance window setting | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Instance release | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Recycle bin | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Instance upgrade | Update of the minor engine version | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Upgrade of the major engine version | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Upgrade from RDS Basic Edition to RDS Cluster Edition | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
Upgrade from RDS High-availability Edition to RDS Cluster Edition | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Upgrade from RDS Basic Edition to RDS High-availability Edition - Regular instances - Serverless instances | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
Change the storage type from local SSD to ESSD or general ESSD | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Account management | Account creation | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Custom password policies | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Password reset | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Account permission modification | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Account deletion | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Reset of the permissions of privileged accounts | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Database management | Database management | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Database deletion | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Database connection management | Instance connection | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Endpoint setting | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Endpoint and port number viewing | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Public endpoint application | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Monitoring and alerting | Metric viewing | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Monitoring frequency setting | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Alert rule setting | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Network setting management | Network type change | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Virtual private cloud (VPC) and vSwitch change | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Read-only instances and read/write splitting | Read-only instance creation | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Read/write splitting | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Change of the network type of the read/write splitting endpoint | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Security management | IP address whitelist setting | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Change to the enhanced whitelist mode | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
SSL encryption setting | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) setting | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Release protection | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Cloud disk encryption | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ |
Auditing | SQL Explorer | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ |
Log management | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Historical event viewing | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Database backup | Backup data | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Configuration of the backup retention policy after the instance release | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Free quota on backup storage | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Backup download | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Cross-region backup | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
Data restoration | Data restoration | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Restoration of individual databases and tables | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
Data restoration from a cross-region backup file | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Dedicated proxy | Dedicated database proxy | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Diagnosis and optimization | Database Autonomy Service (DAS) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | |
AliSQL | AliSQL | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Tag management | Tag creation | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Tag removal | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Tag-based instance search | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Cluster node management | One primary node and multiple readable secondary nodes | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Centralized management of the read/write endpoint and read-only routing endpoint | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Automatic failover and manual switchover of cluster nodes | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
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