It would be interesting to hear the motivation of why they did this. My own experience is moving the opposite direction (from master-slave self-managed to RDS m

It would be interesting to hear the motivation of why they did this. My own experience is moving the opposite direction (from master-slave self-managed to RDS master-replica). I wrote up my experiences and the reasons for the switch here: https://www.theguardian.com/info/developer-blog/2016/feb/04/migrating-postgres-to-rds-without-downtime https://www.theguardian.com/info/developer-blog/2016/feb/04/... .