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Nice article!
I'm curious on the decision from our two engineers to handle the database on their own for many of the initial phases instead of offloading to a fully managed database service in AWS (DDB or RDS depending on needs).
What could be the reasons they decided to host them in EC2 instances? Costs? A particular DB technology not offered as a service in AWS?
RDS should be enough in this context. I forgot to mention it.
Thanks, Fran.
To be fair, RDS is more expensive than self-hosting DB in EC2.
The cost difference can be significant, with self-hosting on EC2 potentially saving 40-60% compared to RDS, depending on the instance type and workload. However, it requires more management effort:
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