To back you up on this, at the last place I worked we ran our own MySQL master and slaves for years, with moving to RDS always on the back burner. Finally compl

To back you up on this, at the last place I worked we ran our own MySQL master and slaves for years, with moving to RDS always on the back burner. Finally completing that migration and shutting down our own servers was a big achievement. Never looked back, and were happy to be paying AWS to take care of the DBs for us.