Rackspace Rolls Out Managed Database Service for AWS

… full life-cycle management to help customers migrate, manage and optimize data through AWS. Enhanced analytics support AWS data and business -ntelligence management services while supporting the analytics in the AWS cloud. Through modular pricing, Rackspace customers can choose to use only the services they need and can create customized solutions as they use AWS data services.

Along with Aurora and Redshift, Rackspace says its database offering will make it easier for customers to adopt AWS Glue, a managed ETL (extract, transform and load) service that helps companies prepare and load their data for analytics; and Amazon Athena, a serverless query services for analyzing data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.

Organizations have multiple needs they’re trying to address as they migrate workloads and data to the cloud, from management and analytics to security, Shanmugam said.

“With a lot of customers, they’re migrating to AWS and using it for the first time, so getting their application ready and working with a managed database service like Aurora is a new challenge,” he said. “With this new service, we’ll be able to extend our management all the way to the database itself, so if there are problems with how the database is structured or queries are written, we can help customers there, too.”