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Document #US45976520 © 2020 IDC. www.idc.com | Page 2 IDC White Paper | Amazon Relational Database Service Delivers Enhanced Database Performance at Lower Total Cost IDC calculates that the move to managed databases on Amazon RDS allows study participants to achieve average annual benefits of $4.99 million per organization ($37,400 per Amazon RDS database), which would result in a three-year return on investment (ROI) of 264%, by: • Supporting development activities and business operations with an agile, scalable, and high-performing cloud-based database service that supports the database engines the study participants already use • Enabling database administrators (DBAs) to work more efficiently, including working more easily across database engines, thereby increasing the number of databases that each DBA team member can manage and administer by an average of 60% • Requiring less information technology (IT) infrastructure time to manage and support database infrastructure and resources and better developing and deploying applications to staff and customers • Lowering the cost of running databases with a cloud-based service that can easily scale to accommodate database workload requirements • Minimizing the effects of unplanned downtime, thereby contributing to greater productivity for business units SITUATION OVERVIEW The world of information technology is undergoing a radical transformation, as enterprises move existing workloads to the cloud and create new ones there. This phenomenon has triggered a broad reevaluation of IT assets generally and caused many enterprises to look at how they may best utilize the cloud as a platform. The platform-as-a-service market is expected to grow from about $25 billion in 2018 to about $92 billion in 2023 at a 2018–2023 compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29.5%. Data services make up over half of the platform market and are expected to grow even faster at a CAGR of 33% to about $53 billion in 2023. These growth figures demonstrate that benefits provided by the public cloud will lead to an accelerated pace of cloud adoption in the next five years. A key element in this reevaluation is the concern for how transactional databases will be handled going forward. The cloud offers a great opportunity for enterprises to shed the cost and risk associated with their own in-house management of those databases, as well as their infrastructure. By intelligently allocating database work to fully managed cloud- based database services, they can ensure that their data is managed on systems that are professionally managed, with database and system software that are continually maintained