Yea i also dont see the point of having everything “managed”. RDS is crazy expensive compared to self hosting and if i have the DB on prem its much faster as w

Yea i also dont see the point of having everything “managed”. RDS is crazy expensive compared to self hosting and if i have the DB on prem its much faster as well. And the admin overhead is not so big to be honest if you are using just one DB. If you are Google scale of course things will change, but I think 80% of loads dont need any managed AWS stuff, replications, multiple nodes, kubernetes, etc… just periodic backups and it runs fine. But people nowadays just like throwing money around I guess, instead of trying to set it up for themselves.