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Re:AWS Lambda Is Not Ready for Prime Time by wcummings on Monday May 23, 2016 @03:40PM (#11756301)
>If you want EC2 to be a virtual hosting service, for example. You are expected to use RDS if you want to store data, not put it on an EC2 instance.

Heaps of people run their own datastores on AWS, this doesn't feel like a great example.

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Re:AWS Lambda Is Not Ready for Prime Time by lairdpop on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @12:28PM (#11762906)
The point was that it's lower friction to use the AWS services, and RDS is a great example of this - you can certainly run your own database in EC2, but if you use RDS it's far less work as many things are provided automatically or very easily. Of course, RDS doesn't suit all use cases, but that's true of many AWS services.
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