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by bch 2568 days ago
Years ago I heard the same from a Postgres-contractor friend who said amazons ready-to-go (now RDS, but iirc, back then just MySQL; I don’t recall the service brand name - maybe also RDS) SQL service was welcome, because it sucked. Its not clear to me though that 1) it would stay “sucky” 2) users would make the distinction my friend did.

I’m worried it’d play out where Amazon would vacuum up the “low end” part of the market and the “high end” would further have to be competed for, because Joes Expert RDBMS Service v Amazon.