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On one hand, it's incredibly annoying. On the other hand part of why you'd choose RDS over deploying MariaDB yourself to an EC2 instance is to shift some of the
by ashtonkem 6y ago
On one hand, it's incredibly annoying. On the other hand part of why you'd choose RDS over deploying MariaDB yourself to an EC2 instance is to shift some of the responsibility of testing & configuration over to AWS. If AWS is disabling features on instances that don't work, this is actually a benefit that they're providing to their users, as you can better trust that any feature enabled on a given product & instance type will "just work".
- acdha 6y agoAlso, this is what you're paying for. I have a couple of legacy RDS databases which have been running for a decade. When you're making a promise to a large number of customers that you're going to support something for the long term it's understandable that you're going to be conservative and probably run some sort of closed beta for long enough to get solid operational experience.