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Ask HN: Do you self-host databases or use a managed service like RDS?

2 points by cloudbee ↗ HN
I felt AWS RDS is too costly for small usecases (5-10M rows). Does any of you manage self-host database here ? Any tools that can turn a self-hosted database into a managed database of sort with easy backup/restore etc.

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chrismeller
This is the standard cloud/managed ROI argument. If you work for a company that falls into the target audience for the service, it will be a no-brainer. If you don’t…

Crunchy Data’s Postgres operator for Kubernetes is basically a roll-your-own RDS.

sianemo
We self-host our Oracle instance because we really, genuinely like Oracle SQL and Oracle Cloud is the only cloud provider (that I'm aware of) that offers Oracle as a service, which is undiserable. Also, in general I personally like the fine control of being able to know the condition of our whole database, including state, deep profiling, and our backup situation, as someone with an old-school sysadmin mindset. However, it's relatively straightforward and well documented[0][1] to migrate to solutions like RDS from existing self-hosted installs if that's what's required.

[0]https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/pat...

[1]https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/hands-on/move-to-mana...