• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    7 months ago

    What has changed though, is that we’ve replaced our $10k/month Aurora instances with a $200/month Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volume.

    Holy shit, I hope whoever wrote this gets a fat bonus at the end of the year. That’s a truly astounding savings.

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      7 months ago

      What they don’t say is how much in developer time they’ve spent rolling their own database. Then there’s also maintenance and new features.

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        7 months ago

        It seems like features would be mainly additional key/values like temperature, humidity, etc. This wouldn’t really change the underlying infrastructure greatly but still give good enhancements to certain customers.