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I feel like Aurora might be a bad example for anti-lock-in. Perhaps vanilla RDS Postgres would be a better one? Aurora does add bells and whistles on top of va

I feel like Aurora might be a bad example for anti-lock-in. Perhaps vanilla RDS Postgres would be a better one? Aurora does add bells and whistles on top of vanilla Postgres that you’d be hard-pressed to find from other DBaaS vendors. Sure, you can pg_dump and pg_restore to another provider but you lose all the goodies that made you choose Aurora in the first place. For clarity, I’m a long-time happy user of Aurora and spend $super_big_money on it. Worth every penny IMHO.

ttfkam 3y ago
Could you expand on this a bit? For context, I am also an Aurora user. I have on occasion used the functions to invoke lambdas and IAM auth, but 99.9% of the time, it's just stuff that comes with Postgres. I'm honestly curious as to which features you find most compelling that can't be found in vanilla Postgres.