[m00x]

They have beef with ES since they took the software, made a bunch of cash on it, then never contributed back. ES called them out and it started a feud.

I'd go on ES over Amazon-built software any day. I worked on RDS and I've used RDS at several companies, it's a mess.

Longer story: One day one of our table went missing on Aurora, we couldn't figure out why, it was in the schema, etc. Devops panicked and restarted the instance, and then another table was missing. We ended up creating 10 empty tables and restarted it until it hit one of those.

We contacted RDS support after that, and the conclusion of their 3 month investigation is: "Yeah, it's not supposed to do that."

There's some really smart people working at Amazon, unfortunately the incentives is to push new stuff out and get promoted ASAP. If you can do that better than others and before your house of cards falls, you're safe. If the house of card crumbles after you're gone, it's their problem.

[vmfunction]

>Longer story: One day one of our table went missing on Aurora, we couldn't figure out why, it was in the schema, etc. Devops panicked and restarted the instance, and then another table was missing. We ended up creating 10 empty tables and restarted it until it hit one of those.

Are there any report this? How come this is the first time I heard of this? How can companies trust this kind of managed DB services?

[m00x]

We worked with dedicated support on this, but I don't think they had enough knowledge to dig deep into it and just gave up. There is a huge backlog of critical issues at most AWS services. It looks great from the outside in, but the sausage making process is extremely messy.

[charcircuit]

>then never contributed back

Amazon did contribute back.

[m00x]

I haven't kept up since the drama, it's possible they did after.