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Are you happy with Aurora Serverless so far? Is it really the "painless scaling" it's made out to be? I'm really hesitant to use anything other than self-hosted
by _xnmw 5y ago
Are you happy with Aurora Serverless so far? Is it really the "painless scaling" it's made out to be? I'm really hesitant to use anything other than self-hosted Postgres with full control, because I'm always afraid of running into situations like these and not being able do what I need to do, like have an offline analytical read replica. Also I imagine the cost is an order of magnitude more than a self-hosted instance.
- cube2222 5y agoNot really. But it's mostly because the support for other features is basically non-existant. It also seems like all development is happening on Aurora Serverless v2 (which I think is in preview state?). The scaling also isn't seamless, it breaks your connections if you're using prepared statements - we have it pinned to a specific number of capacity units. We'll probably move to plain Aurora at some point, as that supports all bells and whistles, but for now Aurora Serverless is good enough.