Comment by Symbiote

You can ask an AI or StackOverflow or whatever for the correct way to start a standby replica, though I think the PostgreSQL documentation is very good.

But if you were in my team I'd expect you to have read at least some of the documentation for any service you provision (self-hosted or cloud) and be able to explain how it is configured, and to document any caveats, surprises or special concerns and where our setup differs / will differ from the documented default. That could be comments in a provisioning file, or in the internal wiki.

That probably increases our baseline complexity since "I pressed a button on AWS YOLO" isn't accepted. I think it increases our reliability and reduces our overall complexity by avoiding a proliferation of services.