Ask HN: For those of you on AWS do you use RDS?

1 pointsby smattiso14 anni fa4 comments

I'm building a new site on AWS using EC2 and S3. Do you guys use EC2 to host your DB or use the RDS? I haven't heard a lot of people using RDS (yet).

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byoung214 anni fa

We're using EC2 to host MySQL. The DB admin does some advanced stuff with striping across EBS volumes, custom replication, and selective backups that couldn't be done with RDS.

smattiso14 anni fa

How's the price compare?

byoung214 anni fa

Probably the same, once you add the raided EBS volumes on top of the EC2 instance

byoung214 anni fa

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mdennewitz14 anni fa

yes. no complaints here. the multi-az hot standby has been very useful.