The long and short of it is that you do not have an account with super access (you can't perform normal actions like killing threads, viewing processlists, change variables, etc). You instead have to use special stored procedures to perform basic administrative functions.
Also, you can't take advantage of replication (aside from their own read replicas within other RDS instances) or binary backups. Anything that requires access to the machine itself is impossible except through Amazon's support channels.
Its gotten better than it was, but it's still a headache to monitor and manage as a DBA.
Also, you can't take advantage of replication (aside from their own read replicas within other RDS instances) or binary backups. Anything that requires access to the machine itself is impossible except through Amazon's support channels.
Its gotten better than it was, but it's still a headache to monitor and manage as a DBA.