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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by jjeaff on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @12:19AM (#19438950)
We are using elasticsearch for non-critical log management. But as for the mysql server, what maintenance/management are you really getting from a managed service like Aurora or Google Cloud SQL?

Our K8s deployment is setup to automatically make backups and test those backups periodically with a full restore. It also notifies us in case of a failed backup. Updating the software is as easy as a single helm command and scaling is about the same as with Aurora. Either you set it up to scale up automatically or you go in and upgrade instances when needed.

Aurora admins aren't monitoring your server for performance issues then making configuration tweaks to speed things up. So I'm not really seeing a lot of difference.

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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by scarface74 on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:25AM (#19439267)
What are we getting? Automatic updates, backups, point in time recovery, multi AZ redundancy of storage, autoscaling synchronous read replicas, and much better performance than your self hosted Mysql instance.
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