precisely. recoverable multi zone postgres without paying a sysadmin. we can manage basic maintenance on our own, but setting up something like that require a s

precisely. recoverable multi zone postgres without paying a sysadmin. we can manage basic maintenance on our own, but setting up something like that require a skilled consultant in short burst at each upgrade/maintenance check, and for a small operation like ours it's too expensive if we want to match what amazon gives. we do have a custom AMI that just fetch and build the latest snapshot release when we need auto-scaling or auto-recovery, but our real problem is that we currently depend on sticky session, so users accumulated on the initial instances get sucky performances. (and yes we are currently working on fixing it, we cannot outright serialize sessions on dynamo because, reasons)