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When you have enough business that RDS is too small, you are not going to be heartbroken about paying for a bespoke setup. Until then, ignorance is bliss.
by jacques_chester 11y ago
When you have enough business that RDS is too small, you are not going to be heartbroken about paying for a bespoke setup.
Until then, ignorance is bliss.
- falcolas 11y agoWell, ignorance also tends to fuel any number of flamewars... In my experience with RDS as a MySQL admin, Amazon was not using sane defaults for quite some time, which resulted in a remarkably non-performant product. Thankfully, they listened to feedback, so over the course of a few years the MySQL RDS instances started to become much more dependable and useful. I'd be happy to use one today, which is something I couldn't have said too long ago. And even with RDS, having a DBA available (even just as a consultant) is still quite useful - it's unrealistic to expect your developers to write ideal SQL. You can get a long ways with RDS if your queries and schemas are well tuned.