This is nice from the app manifest perspective because you can declare your database right along side your deployment. The provisioning time of a deployment an

This is nice from the app manifest perspective because you can declare your database right along side your deployment. The provisioning time of a deployment and an RDS instance is very different though. This is probably most useful when you’re starting a service up for the first time. This is also when it’s not going to work as expected due to that latency of RDS starting up while your app crashed repeatedly waiting for that connection string. This would be really nice for buckets and near instant provisioned resources, but also kinda scary that someone could nuke a whole data store because they got a trigger finger with a weird deployment and deleted and reapplied it. My feelings, they are mixed. :D