Amazon RDS

“they killed a postgres on RDS instance (AWS bug!) and couldn't google or LLM their way out of it”

“If it were RDS, then it'd just be provision and done.”

“MAYBE RDS is a good deal for somebody who really wants to pay somebody else for a managed database.”

“RDS is doing a lot more for you than what you can set up in an afternoon”

“RDS gets you easy integration with the rest of the AWS services, which as a startup, you’re probably using quite a few of.”

“RDS is nice even if you just want basic functionality with backups.”

“battle-tested infrastructure for HA, backup and restores, point-in-time recovery, read replicas”

“Why pay $1050/month on AWS RDS when a Herzner dedicated server costs $55 a month and offers more resources?”

“RDS is a bit of a special case because you also have AWS curating and prioritizing updates.”

“Use EC2, EBS, S3, Route53 plus EKS, RDS, ElastiCache.”

“The first step I do when I do any meaningful side project is to set up rds with snapshots.”

“it adds a lot of value - scalability, a reasonably optimized config, backups I don't have to worry about.”

“db hosting is something that makes me nervous and I end up just leaving it to RDS etc.”

“prefer paying a fixed amount per month to rent a server rather than a pay-as-you-go managed DB”

“With a managed database service, most of what you're paying goes to making sure that disaster recovery works.”

“the price difference between the bare machines vs RDS usually aren't enough to pay for another person”

“I concur on RDS, Terraform for IAC, and FaaS whenever possible.”

“If you're on AWS the answer is fairly simple because it boils down to what IO capacity you are willing to pay for.”

“Easy to scale on RDS, along with everything else.”

“I've had an RDS instance fail in an equally-weird way that required manual AWS operator intervention 24 hours later”

“RDS is a particular racket that will cost you hundreds of dollars for a rock bottom tier.”

“why not allow RDS to load up extension binaries from an S3 bucket and call it a day?”

“We run ~25kqps average & mostly things are fine, but when on-call pages come in query performance is a common culprit.”

“Hell, even the metrics that RDS gives you for free make the thing pay for itself, IMO.”

“On RDS you can get an HA replica (or cluster) by clicking a radio box.”

“I do not want that responsibility, especially because I know how badly it turns out”

“using RDS or Supabase saves weeks of time on upgrades, replicas, tuning, and backups”

“It's definitely expensive, but it's not time-consuming.”

“read auto scaling is huge in Serverless: you can have new read replica nodes auto-launch in response to e.g. a wave of concurrent, massive reporting queries”

“their performance profiles and uptime guarantees are more than acceptable for the price we pay”

“a self-hosted PostgreSQL on a bare metal server with NVMe SSDs will much faster than what RDS is capable of”

“except now they are stuck trying to maintain and debug Postgres without having the same visibility and agency”

“RDS access logging is pretty trustworthy, though functionality varies by engine”

“we've moved to RDS with license included to avoid the direct relationship with Oracle”

“Strangely, what version I needed to upgrade to from 8.0 was not stated anywhere in the mass of emails Amazon sent me.”

“RDS, Route53, and Elasticache are decent, too.”

“Right. That's my point, and aside from GPU, pretty much any normal service or app you need to run can be deployed on that.”

“A UNIX pipe gets replaced with a $1200/mo. maximum IOPS RDS channel, bandwidth not included in price.”

“Multi-AZ RDS is 100% higher availability than me managing something.”

“RDS, and the equivalent at every other hosting provider I know of, gets quite pricey indeed.”