A company manages an on-premises MySQL database on a Windows server. The company wants to migrate the database to AWS and needs a solution that will reduce the administrative overhead of the database. Which AWS service will meet this requirement?

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a managed service that simplifies setting up, operating, and scaling a relational database in the AWS Cloud. It supports MySQL and automates time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups. By migrating the on-premises MySQL database to Amazon RDS, the company can significantly reduce its administrative overhead and focus on its applications rather than database management.

A. Amazon Redshift is a data warehousing service, designed for analytics and business intelligence, not for transactional workloads like a standard MySQL database.
B. Amazon ElastiCache is an in-memory caching service used to improve the performance of web applications, not a persistent relational database.
D. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is a scalable file storage service for use with Amazon EC2 instances, not a database service.

1. Amazon Web Services. (2023). What is Amazon RDS? AWS Documentation. Retrieved from https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Welcome.html. (See the "Overview of Amazon RDS" section, which states, "Amazon RDS frees you to focus on your application by managing time-consuming database administration tasks...")

2. Amazon Web Services. (2022). Overview of Amazon Web Services (Whitepaper). (p. 23, "Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)").