If you really want or need to go active-active but also don’t want to think about it much and can live with MySQL my preference would probably be AWS Aurora mul

If you really want or need to go active-active but also don’t want to think about it much and can live with MySQL my preference would probably be AWS Aurora multi-master if you can live with its limitations: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/aurora-multi-master.html#aurora-multi-master-limitations https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide... As noted there and elsewhere though often you are better off just scaling up. If you do want to really think about it then NewSQL (Cloud Spanner or others) could be the way to go but the cost, performance, compatibility/portability and other concerns make this a much more complex decision that isn’t easy to capture in a blog post (or HN comment ;).