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> Free RDS Alternative RDS is a managed service. This is a code repo. It is useless until you deploy it at which point... it's no longer free. Then you have to
by jacurtis 3y ago
> Free RDS Alternative
RDS is a managed service. This is a code repo. It is useless until you deploy it at which point... it's no longer free. Then you have to manage it yourself and deal with the overhead yourself.
This is like saying I can fire my gardener because you have a free gardener alternative, and then handing me a pair of scissors. I now have all the problems that I paid the Gardener to solve.
Likewise, we pay AWS to manage all the headaches that deploying this would introduce. And trust me, if you are running databases at scale in production, then RDS feels very affordable considering the problems it solves.
- Vonng 3y agoThe scale of operation is the crux here. For a modest number of cores, RDS is a congenial choice. However, when you're going to hundreds or, as in our scenario, tens of thousands of cores with PostgreSQL, clinging to RDS is sheer lunacy. I was the designated gardener to tackle this: architecting and managing a PostgreSQL deployment with 25K cores and 3M TPS. We've been shelling out a cool $1M annually, covering the whole thing - hardware, software, and DBAs. Meanwhile, the toll for RDS is an astronomical tenfold of our current expenditure, yet it comes with a lesser degree of availability and a starkly crippled observability and other stuff.