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Ask HN: For those of you on AWS do you use RDS?

1 points by smattiso 14y ago

I'm building a new site on AWS using EC2 and S3. Do you guys use EC2 to host your DB or use the RDS? I haven't heard a lot of people using RDS (yet).

byoung2 14y ago
We're using EC2 to host MySQL. The DB admin does some advanced stuff with striping across EBS volumes, custom replication, and selective backups that couldn't be done with RDS.
- smattiso 14y ago
  How's the price compare?
  - byoung2 14y ago
    Probably the same, once you add the raided EBS volumes on top of the EC2 instance
  - deleted 14y ago
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  - byoung2 14y ago
    Probably the same, once you add the raided EBS volumes on top of the EC2 instance
mdennewitz 14y ago
yes. no complaints here. the multi-az hot standby has been very useful.