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by FridgeSeal 1959 days ago
It that I advocate running your own Postgres setup in your own cluster instead of just renting a managed version, but I’ve run a few databases on K8s and found it pretty fine: useful for when your hosting provider doesn’t support the database you want to run (Clickhouse managed AWS service when?) or for application-specific KV-stores: EBS volumes and PVC’s are great, solid performance, kubernetes takes care of the networking, will resurrect it if the worst happens and it does go down.

I probably could have those things on their own instance but then I’d need to have to go through the hassle of networking, failover/recreation, deployments, etc and for the vast majority of cases that’s 100% more effort than deploy a stateful-set.

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> (Clickhouse managed AWS service when?)

Now! Altinity runs Altinity.Cloud now in AWS. Feel free to drop by.

There are also services in other clouds. Yandex runs one in their cloud and there are at least 3 in China. ClickHouse has a big and active community of providers.

Disclaimer: I work for Altinity.

> Now! Altinity runs Altinity.Cloud now in AWS. Feel free to drop by.

Fantastic to hear! This is so exciting.