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by ssalat 3911 days ago
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!
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Running one big cluster and using application level separation would make lots of customers apprehensive...