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by lairdpop 3673 days ago
The point was that it's lower friction to use the AWS services, and RDS is a great example of this - you can certainly run your own database in EC2, but if you use RDS it's far less work as many things are provided automatically or very easily. Of course, RDS doesn't suit all use cases, but that's true of many AWS services.