ApsaraDB RDS can be used with other Alibaba Cloud services to meet your business requirements in various scenarios.
Geo-disaster recovery
Use ApsaraDB RDS with self-managed database instances for geo-disaster recovery
Protect your business from regional outages by pairing ApsaraDB RDS with self-managed database instances across different geographic locations.
Heterogeneous data storage
Use ApsaraDB RDS with heterogeneous databases for diversified data storage
Use ApsaraDB RDS alongside heterogeneous databases to store a wide range of data across different database engines.
Read/write splitting
Relieve pressure on your primary instance during read-heavy workloads by routing read requests to dedicated read-only instances. This feature is supported only for MySQL and SQL Server.
Large-scale data computing
Use ApsaraDB RDS with MaxCompute for data computing at scale
Connect ApsaraDB RDS to MaxCompute to process data at scale.