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by mschuster91 1652 days ago
> 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.