[bpicolo]

I wonder how the cost differs, given they have to keep hot standbys? Perhaps a lot of behind-the scenes prediction to make it cost effective? Takes a while to create a standby from scratch for large DBs.

Either way, sweet tech. Seems like a fun thing to build

[zwily]

Aurora doesn’t work that way - it has one storage layer shared by all the nodes. Adding a new replica is very fast no matter your data set size.

[bpicolo]

Ahh, makes sense. Thanks for the clarification there!