If you keep the rest of your cloud architecture on AWS, possibly. Consider if you were primarily using RDS but otherwise had a hybrid on-prem compute estate, yo

If you keep the rest of your cloud architecture on AWS, possibly. Consider if you were primarily using RDS but otherwise had a hybrid on-prem compute estate, you'd already be paying RDS egress which you'd eliminate. Its interesting what HN startup-minded AWS centric people's thinking is, and while common, there are other viewpoints.