I 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 sen

I 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.