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by pahkah 1040 days ago
> No surprises here. Come what may, Amazon has always strived to lower costs

Maybe it's just a goal to reduce costs, but it seems likely that this is a response to Google's introduction of AlloyDB, a Postgres-compatible database competing with Aurora that is advertised as having "no...opaque I/O charges". I doubt Amazon was feeling generous.