Posted by ksec 1 day ago
Would be curious to know what the underlying aws ec2 instance is.
Is each DB on a dedicated instance?
If not, are there per-customer iops bounds?
> $50
edit: my bad that's the price for 256GB RAM.
The reality most databases are tiny as shit and most apps can tolerate the massive latency that the cloud provider dbs offer.
It is why it is sorta funny we are rediscovering non network attached storage is faster.
That's $54,348/year, not including the cost of benefits, not including stock compensation. Let's say you reserve 20% for benefits and that comes out to $43,478.40 in salary.
Besides the benefit of not needing the management / communication overhead of hiring somebody, do you know any DBAs willing to take a full-time job for $43,478.40 in salary?
Also, this is a shared server, not a truly dedicated one like you’d get with bare-metal providers. So, calling it "Metal" might be misleading marketing trick, but if you want someone to always blame and don’t mind overpaying for that comfort, then the managed option might be the right thing.
Apparently there are people who find this offering compelling. The lack of value is quite stunning to me.
How does cross data center nodes work?