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by jon-wood 4594 days ago
If you place no value on you're time then yes, it would be cheaper to just run it on your own EC2 instance. There's a lot to be said for not having to worry about the day to day of maintaining a database server though.
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bjeanes 4594 days ago
Well said. It's frustrating how much people want to do price comparisons on the commodity instead of the service.

You're paying for the "as a service" part of PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, *aaS.

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