One of our web teams wanted to do a simple Wordpress deployment on LAMP. As sysadmins, that was no issue, even with clustered mariadb. But our DBA team doesn't

One of our web teams wanted to do a simple Wordpress deployment on LAMP. As sysadmins, that was no issue, even with clustered mariadb. But our DBA team doesn't have any experience outside of Oracle/MSSQL, and squawked about mariadb. After an hour of this BS, the manager of the web team spun up a few EC2 instances and got to work. Of course we don't have anyone familiar with EC2, so supporting that will be a learning curve for someone, but the manager is happy, he has his own sandbox without hassles from the DBAs.