[dbalatero]

Come on, that's not all they do. They also resell open source as better-UXified tooling. RDS is "just" repackaged postgres/redis/etc with a more convenient dont-have-to-peek-under-the-hood as much dev experience.

[scarface_74]

That “just” is doing a lot of heavy lifting and dismissing the entire server maintenance and HA across multiple regions is kind of strange

But Aurora is not “just” a repackaged MySQL, the entire storage layer was rewritten.