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What you describe is still a fallacy because it's assuming that just because you can get better performance with BareMetal, that somehow this is a cheaper or be
by 0xbadcafebee 4y ago
What you describe is still a fallacy because it's assuming that just because you can get better performance with BareMetal, that somehow this is a cheaper or better option. In fact it will be either more error-prone, or more expensive, or both, because you are trying to reproduce from scratch what the whole RDS team has been doing for 10 years.
- CuriouslyC 4y agoI don't think anyone's arguing RDS doesn't have useful features. The problem is that it's stupid expensive for the performance you get. RDS makes a lot of sense when prototyping, and if you want a failover database with checkpoint backups, but having it be your primary database of record only makes sense if you're not developing a data product, otherwise your profit margin becomes Amazon's.
- Spooky23 4y agoRDS is to 2022 what Oracle was in 2002. It’s a safe choice.