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Re:Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.6.1 by philliphaydon on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:24AM (#12955830)
We had this issue. Luckily they recently added native backups to s3 so we had 3 hours of downtime to backup a 180gb db and restore to a new 500gb instance.
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Re:Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.6.1 by brazzledazzle on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @03:53AM (#12956596)
Jesus. I'm no strategy genius but sometimes it seems like they want to cede the Windows market to Azure. Some of the Windows stuff in AWS seems kind of "me too".
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Re:Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.6.1 by brianwawok on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @06:57PM (#12963458)
Is the windows server market with fighting for? Ms makes the most profit no matter who runs the hardware.
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Re:Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.6.1 by brazzledazzle on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @03:05AM (#12965266)
That's a fair point. And if it really came down to it they could (and arguably do with things like SQL server) make the licensing terms less agreeable for other cloud operators.
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