Comment by eknkc

We did not want postgres to be a central failure point of this API.

Needed a pretty high uptime guarantee so we decided that as long as AWS region is up and running, the API would also be available by using only completely managed aws services like dynamodb, lambda etc. Also had a bunch of beefy servers around other providers (hetzner, online.net etc) handling the actual work. They did not have any other dependencies either.