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by yjftsjthsd-h 2168 days ago
> You are forgetting to price in some minor features that Aurora provides

That's true and fair, although in both directions; skimming the docs it looks like aurora prices include 2 replicas? But backups aren't free (to store), bandwidth isn't free, and iops aren't free. Also, my difficulty in figuring out a fair pricing comparison highlights another point: a dedicated server has a fixed price. Other than more servers for more instances/replicas, you're never going to pay more, and even then it's a simple "adding another replica will increase our costs to X*(N+1) per month", not a "scaling out will add X to our costs, but if we use more I/O than expected we'll add Y to our costs, and exporting data will cost Z in bandwidth".