Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a web service that supports the operations of a relational database in the cloud. It provides access to a MySQL or Oracle database and manages all the administrative tasks, including hardware and software configuration and updates, automated backups, and system monitoring.

Organizations use Amazon RDS to manage their database deployment in the cloud, paying only for the computing resources and storage that their database instance uses. By off-loading the costs and complexities of purchasing and maintaining hardware and database software, organizations can focus on their business applications.

BIRT Designer Professional supports access to data in Amazon RDS. As with other types of data sources, for a report to use data from Amazon RDS, you must create the following BIRT objects: