[markonen]

Looks to be very specifically geared towards a certain type of database load. The ratio of CPU, RAM and storage is fixed, and (in my opinion) the offering includes tons of CPU/RAM with relatively paltry storage sizes.

Additionally, no built-in HA / replication options.

That said, this nicely illustrates how nearly any competent setup will run circles around RDS in terms of queries per second.

And yet I still choose RDS…

[matt2000]

Agreed, not being able to scale storage independently of CPU is kind of a deal breaker. Feels like it's just a way to get you up to higher instance types whether you need the CPU or not.