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by loriverkutya 1610 days ago
RDS is amazing, we upgraded our postgres DBs from 8.something to 11.something with one click/db and 5 minutes downtime a few weeks ago. Bigger/smaller instances and read replicas are also one click away in case you need to scale up or down. The builtin snapshot and backup capabilities are working out of the box, set it up and forget about it till you need to restore. Easily managable via terraform or your choice of infrastructure as code tools.
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Serverless RDS has been a dream so far, zero complaints.

And +1 to Terraform. I really do think these problems are related to experience, with some folks favoring complaints over getting their hands dirty and figuring things out for themselves.