Comment by raffraffraff
2 years ago
I agree that RDS is stupidly expensive and not worth it provided that the company actually hires at least 2x full-time database owners who monitor, configure, scale and back up databases. Most startups will just save the money and let developers "own" their own databases or "be responsible for" uptime and backups.
For a couple hundred grand you can get a team of 20 fully trained people working full time in most parts of the world.