[igorzij]

Things like Dynamo are AWS-specific, it is their way of locking you in. You could use MongoDB or Cassandra (which is right depends on what you use it for) that would work in any cloud provider. Moreover, for 90% of use cases the capabilities of good old PostgreSQL are more than sufficient, even if you store JSON in it and use it like a document DB.

[milesward]

Try Alternator from ScyllaDB to break that lock :)

[PeterCorless]

Thanks for the shout-out Miles!

Yes, for folks who do not know, you can use Scylla, a NoSQL database that has a DynamoDB-compatible API, to deploy to other clouds (GCP) or even on-premises. It's been running in production for some years now. Here's the blog when we announced it, and there's more to be found on ScyllaDB.com — just search for "Alternator."

https://www.scylladb.com/2019/09/11/scylla-alternator-the-op...