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Hopefully we will see AWS release a managed serverless SQL db solution at re:Invent 2017. Like DynamoDB but for SQL.

• davnicwil 9y ago
  > Like DynamoDB but for SQL This would basically be the game-changer for building backends on lambda. The absolute key and most valuable piece in most backends is the persistent datastore. I absolutely want to build functional stateless business logic on lambda, but I absolutely will not, no matter the gain from not having to manage servers, have my database be dynamodb or any other non-RDBMS, for any serious application in 2017.
  • ranman 9y ago
    Why not? Plenty of serious companies use DDB or MongoDb or plenty of other databases for their "serious applications"... this seems like a rule based on a bad experience. Would love to hear about it.
    • davnicwil 9y ago
      Why not? Well, a caveat: I will always use an RDBMS when the data is inherently relational. In a "serious application" (I realise the term serious is hyperbolic here and I shouldn't have used it) this is true most of the time. If it weren't true, then of course I might consider using DynamoDB or similar. But I think these situations are few and far between. I'm often wrong though and happy to learn about some counter examples if you have any / have my assumptions corrected.
• noway421 9y ago
  There's Aurora which has scalable read replicas.