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cloud vs. serverless: You can install postgres in a AWS EC2, it's in the "cloud" but you still have to do all the sysadmin work yourself. Or you can use a "se
by ggregoire 3y ago
cloud vs. serverless:
You can install postgres in a AWS EC2, it's in the "cloud" but you still have to do all the sysadmin work yourself.
Or you can use a "serverless" postgres and let the provider do the sysadmin work for you. I guess you could call it "postgres as a service".
- mpol 3y agoThat is simply a managed server.
- icedchai 3y agoIt's more like a managed distributed system. A highly available serverless database, like AWS Aurora, is much more than "a server."
- tacker2000 3y agoHow is that server “less”? Just because you didnt install it using apt-get? Its still a server. It still uses a bare metal machine running a VM in some datacenter that is accessible remotely.
- ggregoire 3y agoI was just commenting about the difference between "cloud" and "serverless", because you said "Why not call it cloud?". I prefer "as a service" or "managed" instead of "serverless". Not a big fan of the term for the reasons you mentioned.
- tacker2000 3y agoYes i also prefer that. Thanks for clarifying.