well, no. This is because there's a cap (albeit very high these days) scaling vertically - but the bigger advantage is you can also variably scale the applicati

well, no. This is because there's a cap (albeit very high these days) scaling vertically - but the bigger advantage is you can also variably scale the application. It's a much bigger pain to scale up and down your DB instance with traffic. application pods can just be shut down etc. Also you can just wrap your queries in a session/transaction on the client, so no worries there. But yes, don't do this until you need to.