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Please elaborate on how RDS didn't live up to its promises?

• dangrossman 14y ago
  When EBS failed in US-East a year or two ago, my RDS instance did not remain available and did not automatically fail over to its replica, despite my paying for these benefits. Even when it was working correctly, the RDS instances had low capacity compared to physical servers, and there were often spikes of significant latency that would lead to overloaded web servers as DB queries backed up unanswered.
  • genwin 14y ago
    Good to know. I read here on HN that during the storm event in June, the same thing happened (no auto fail over for those who paid for it).