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AWS makes billions from managing servers at scale.
by scarface_74 2y ago
AWS makes billions from managing servers at scale.
- dbalatero 2y agoCome on, that's not all they do. They also resell open source as better-UXified tooling. RDS is "just" repackaged postgres/redis/etc with a more convenient dont-have-to-peek-under-the-hood as much dev experience.
- scarface_74 2y agoThat “just” is doing a lot of heavy lifting and dismissing the entire server maintenance and HA across multiple regions is kind of strange But Aurora is not “just” a repackaged MySQL, the entire storage layer was rewritten.
- datavirtue 2y agoWith gobs of OSS