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Why do you need consultants to run a database cluster? And do you run AWS database clusters in production without expert knowledge? If you need consultants for
by dx034 9y ago
Why do you need consultants to run a database cluster? And do you run AWS database clusters in production without expert knowledge? If you need consultants for self-hosted databases you'd probably also need consultants to properly set up AWS services.
- throwaway2016a 9y agoPerformance tuning, scaling, troubleshooting, etc. We had terabytes of active data (as opposed to warehoused data). For example, if a disk fills or is fails, adding a disk to a mySQL setup without causing downtime is a pretty involved process but in RDS it is one config change in the admin. It does the same process just AWS put a huge amount of work into automating it. We only brought in the consultant for an average of a day every other week but that adds up and we had to bring in 0 people after switching to RDS.