[tayo42]

I'm kind of confused by companies like the one in the post. What is the selling point of the these hosted DB companies running in AWS, when aws and the rest of the providers them selves provide pretty good, probably much better, DB services? Is there that much money to make between running DBs on EC2 compared to the existing offerings they have?

Amazon, google, MS, these companies print money, have built up massive engineering cultures to run reliable storage. I just dont see what the value is with trusting data with some VC funded group over proven engineering work.

I worked on one of these in house storage systems, all we did was look at how the cloud providers did things already for inspiration. Might as well just use those. IDK maybe someone can convince me of the value?

[qaq]

Cause they provide solution AWS does not ? SingleStore is hybrid OLAP/OLTP AWS does not have one of those. Neither does it have a proper horizontally scalable new SQL DBMS like CockroachDB. Snowflake is way better than what you can get from AWS for OLAP. and so on

[audioheavy]

Sometimes the value is not in having a zillion configuration options with these providers but, instead, having a more accessible service that doesn't require a PhD.

And some of the people in those VC-funded groups were alumni of those providers too. :)

-L

[cmrdporcupine]

The risk is not that AWS offers a better service now (many of these companies are actually offering something better). But that they copy your idea or service and do it later.

I'm given to understand Snowflake runs its own cloud platform, at least in part.