> RDS is very expensive. 3000 iops is included on EBS (EC2) , but costs ~$300/mo on RDS. Additional iops is 20x I’m not trying to argue that RDS isn’t expensiv

> RDS is very expensive. 3000 iops is included on EBS (EC2) , but costs ~$300/mo on RDS. Additional iops is 20x I’m not trying to argue that RDS isn’t expensive, but an on-demand multi-az 4 CPU / 16GB instance with 12,000 IOPS / 500MiBps bandwidth is ~$600 / month on RDS. https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=0d612854fb94107dcb144414c7fa0bb92f89f3e9 https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=0d612854fb94107dcb14441...