While companies may choose to set up their own database servers in the cloud, they can alternatively just purchase a relational database as a service, such as RDS offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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While companies may choose to set up their own database servers in the cloud, they can alternatively just purchase a relational database as a service, such as RDS offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).