Ask HN: For those of you on AWS do you use RDS? 1 points by smattiso 14y ago ↗ HN 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).
[–] byoung2 14y ago ↗ 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. [–] smattiso 14y ago ↗ How's the price compare? [–] byoung2 14y ago ↗ Probably the same, once you add the raided EBS volumes on top of the EC2 instance [–] [deleted] 14y ago ↗ (comment deleted) [–] [dead] byoung2 14y ago ↗ Probably the same, once you add the raided EBS volumes on top of the EC2 instance
[–] smattiso 14y ago ↗ How's the price compare? [–] byoung2 14y ago ↗ Probably the same, once you add the raided EBS volumes on top of the EC2 instance [–] [deleted] 14y ago ↗ (comment deleted) [–] [dead] byoung2 14y ago ↗ Probably the same, once you add the raided EBS volumes on top of the EC2 instance
[–] byoung2 14y ago ↗ Probably the same, once you add the raided EBS volumes on top of the EC2 instance
[–] [dead] byoung2 14y ago ↗ Probably the same, once you add the raided EBS volumes on top of the EC2 instance
6 comments
[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 128 ms ] thread