[ameliaquining]

What's wrong with using RDS in production? I'd rather do that than build around a vendor-lock-in Amazon offering when not strictly necessary. I'd also rather do that than administer a database myself.

[bootlooped]

"...AWS RDS Sevice. It offers t2.micro for free during the first 12 months. It is fine for development. However, I will not recommend using it in production."

I think maybe they were talking specifically about not using the t2.micro instance size in production.

[scanr]

Do you know what the downsides would be of using a t2.micro in production (for a low volume of requests)?

[pagnihotry]

Hi ameliaquining, like bootlooped pointed out, I am suggesting to not use t2.micro in production and not RDS.

[Drdrdrq]

Hi, thanks for the write-up, very informative! What would be the lowest instance type you would recommend for a similar setup? I have an app I'm thinking of porting to AWS...

[pagnihotry]

C/M should do it for general workloads in production, R/I on RDS. If you are doing something specific, you may have to look closely at the resource bottlenecks on those instances. t2.micro should be fine for development.

[jrs95]

Nothing is "wrong" with it, you just can't feasibly do it for free.