A managed service like RDS provides administration tasks like automated backups, failover, and host replacement in the case of failures and software patches.

RDS is a container service, which means that the database engine, infrastructure, platform, and operations are fully managed. RDS also provides backups and high availability for your database when deployed with the multi-AZ attribute.

The service is responsible for patching your database in scheduled maintenance windows. Keep it secure with the ability to encrypt data and communications and the ability to recover your data in the case of a disaster with database snapshots.

Navigate to the RDS console to analyze the main options we have to create a DB instance:

In the left side, we have selected the RDS dashboard and the options right below.