Comment by mythz

We're also defaulting to using SQLite first for our new Apps with Simplicity, Speed, Cost and flexibility being the motivating factors.

Not needing a managed database also allows us to move away from AWS onto much better value Hetzner servers, much love to Litestream [1] which makes replication to R2/S3 effortless. It's a silly 30-40x cheaper hosting SQLite Web Apps on Hetzner compared to the "recommended" managed DB configurations on AWS/Azure.

[1] https://docs.servicestack.net/ormlite/litestream