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It sounds like you were using relatively loosely coupled AWS services. RDS doesn't change your programming interface to the database, it just hosts it. If you n
by ademarre 11y ago
It sounds like you were using relatively loosely coupled AWS services. RDS doesn't change your programming interface to the database, it just hosts it. If you needed to, you could switch to a non-RDS Postgres server with only a configuration change to your core application.
Contrast this with using AWS DynamoDB, which would likely be a major overhaul if you needed to switch to something that could be used outside of AWS.
- tootie 11y agoHaha, I just posted a nearly identical reply to another commenct. We actually just selected SimpleDB over DynamoDB for a new project specifically because it supports JPA annotations instead of a custom SDK. We know we're going to have to transition to a private datacenter in the near future so we have to avoid lock-in. SimpleDB beat out RDS just on price.
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