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After spending a lot of my time doing both, I can offer some perspective on that. It's not that I disagree, and many people feel the same as you, but very often
by dvfjsdhgfv 3y ago
After spending a lot of my time doing both, I can offer some perspective on that. It's not that I disagree, and many people feel the same as you, but very often it results from underestimating the time, experience and knowledge needed to create a secure and efficient cloud environment. Also, RDS makes many things easier for you (but also less flexible), but some things can't be automated and still require manual intervention like major version upgrades.
- vidarh 3y agoSame. I love RDS. It's amazingly convenient and I use it when I can justify it. It's also really expensive and I can - and have - easily build postgres setups w/replication across multiple data centers in several countries and still come out cheaper (including time spent) than anything remotely similar capacity in RDS. It's not hard, but it's more work than me, and so I'm happy to let AWS do it when I work somewhere where we can afford it. Cloud has a role many places, but not in setups that are cost sensitive at scale.