[marcosdumay]

IMO, the reason to self-host your database is latency.

Yes, I'd say backups and analysis are table stakes for hiring it, and multi-datacenter failover is a relevant nice to have. But the reason to do it yourself is because it's literally impossible to get anything as good as you can build in somebody's else computer.

[andersmurphy]

Yup, often orders of magnitude better.