[staticassertion]

Yeah, it makes it a non-starter for me.

AWS could really do more in the area of making it super easy to get a hybrid managed database.

I run a DB that AWS does not have managed support for, it would be great to have managed backups, managed patching, autoscaling, etc.

[gravypod]

For me it's amazing how much more performant software can be when you can just serialize and load data from disk using something like recordio or leveldb.