[rdhatt]

Strongly agree. There is a huge amount of value in what RDS provides (over DIY EC2).

Fellow HN user quinnypig described it succinctly:

  RDS is a huge win not because of anything intrinsic to what the platform actually is, but because we collectively suck at setting up and managing replication, backups, etc.

https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1173377290815721473