RDS may refer to:

Broadcasting

  • Radio Data System, data on FM radio
  • Radio Dimensione Suono, an Italian radio station
  • Réseau des sports, sports TV in Canada
  • RDS Info, a sports news channel of Réseau des sports
  • RDS, South Australia TV station, sister of RTS (TV station)

Companies and organizations

  • Retained Duty System, retained firefighter on call, UK
  • Royal Dublin Society, philanthropic organisation and club
  • Shell plc, as an initialism and stock ticker under former name Royal Dutch Shell

Computing

  • Amazon Relational Database Service
  • Random dot stereogram, a form of 3-D image
  • Reliable Datagram Sockets, a computer-networking protocol
  • Remote Data Services, part of Microsoft SQL Server
  • Remote Desktop Services, Microsoft remote access
  • Research Data Services, merged into Australian Research Data Commons
  • Romania Data Systems, an ISP

Science and medicine

  • Rate-determining step, of a chemical reaction
  • Reflectance difference spectroscopy
  • Relational developmental systems, in psychology
  • Respiratory distress syndrome (disambiguation), a lung disease
  • Respondent-driven sampling, in statistics
  • Reward deficiency syndrome

Other

  • RDS Arena, a stadium in Dublin, Ireland
  • Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme, an irrigation project in India
  • Retiree Drug Subsidy, in US healthcare
  • Reddish South railway station, England
  • Soviet atomic bomb project tests RDS-1 etc.
  • Red dot sight, non-magnifying aiming device for firearms