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by sharklazer 1644 days ago
Sorry, didn’t mean you get your setup faster, but that you get faster setups. I had an inkling that would be misunderstood.

Yes you can spin up a crap fast on amazon. But it’s crap and you will pay an arm and leg for it.

I don’t care about “easy” as much I care about sustainable and cheap.

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> Yes you can spin up a crap fast on amazon. But it’s crap and you will pay an arm and leg for it.

Amazon RDS is everything but not crap. The great value-add that RDS provides is that they take care of all the tasks you'd normally need many days of setting up, evaluating, regularly checking they still work: replication, automated failover, backup/restore, version upgrades.