[petesergeant]

> RDS is ultimately a solution for people who look in the mirror and confidently say "you don't know how to run a database."

Which is hopefully virtually everyone whose full-time job isn't DBA.

[onphonenow]

I used to be very dba focused ages ago. Aws RDS for postgres I just love. Their RDS products must print money. Yes I could deploy myself. Yes I could use docker in various ways - I use docker for most app deploys. But but but - if you’ve been down the rabbit hole of scaling a database - or backing up, updating, securing etc its a no brainer - and aws let’s you start small