Comment by benmmurphy 14 hours ago
its also crazy how much cheaper it is than AWS. the primary DB is around $500/month with 32 CPU and 256 GB of RAM and 7TB. AWS RDS db.m6gd.8xlarge which is 32 CPU and 128 GB of RAM costs $2150/month before paying for storage as well.
Yup, and you also get to make AWS deal with OS upgrades, DB upgrades, backups, etc.
You have to pay 2x for multi-AZ or you get downtime for upgrades. And DB major version upgrades require manual effort unless you want to roll the dice on their new blue-green feature, which can take hours to fail or finish cutting over.
Yeah, but you get what you pay for. That m6gd.8xlarge would never be subject to such a long network outage as once the hardware fault was detected, it would be moved to another machine