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by adrr 1086 days ago
Then you incur costs around people who have specific knowledge around the technology. I can push 500k reads per sec on a RDS on instance which be a very challenging to do on on vanilla Postgres on EC2 instances. And when stuff breaks like broken file systems, I can just rely on their support. Same goes with Kubernetes at scale. EKS allows me to not to hire an ops/systems role.