> Almost every cloud platform service is more expensive than doing it yourself. No surprise here. In a business environment, this is actually not true unless y

> Almost every cloud platform service is more expensive than doing it yourself. No surprise here. In a business environment, this is actually not true unless you consider the extreme long term. A Multi-AZ MySQL RDS instance of size db.m1.large (2x vCPU, 7.5GB of RAM), a 500GB standard disk, and an on-demand pricing model with 100% monthly utilization, will cost you approx. US$7,000 per year (rounding up.) That price gets you almost everything you can imagine from that service. US$7,000 wouldn't get you my services for the time needed to setup a service that came even 30% as close in terms of reliability, feature parity and support. RDS is not expensive (in the right environment.)