[ssalat]

This new aws service offer is really boring, I don't see a real advantage migrating to it anytime soon.

What will be the expectation here:

- Autoscaling functionalities out of the box

- Better speed than on regular EC2 instances (I/O, Network)

- More visiblity, better monitoring out of the box (e.g. Marvel)

- Lower pricing than running on plain EC2

Still a long way to go here...

[dangrossman]

RDS seems to be doing just fine with a large markup over EC2. Why would the managed version of a service be lower priced than the same infrastructure being managed?

[ssalat]

Amazon has more possiblities to run a really huge cluster and balance the different load peaks of the search nodes. The whole business model of AWS is based on this... but you're right as well, price isn't everything and comfort worth money. And yes, I love RDS as well, especially Aurora... it's a great deal!

[p0rkbelly]

Running one big cluster and using application level separation would make lots of customers apprehensive...

[davidzyc]

That's soo true.