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Re:Unbundling AWS by parhamn on Sunday December 01, 2019 @10:03AM (#21675763)
Backups, configuration and failover. Which traditionally meant a db guy or an ops guy which costs money. I've done it for multiple database technologies and doing it right is not at all easy or cheap on time.

With that said, Kubernetes might fix this because they have access to more parts of the system in a generic API. With tech like KubeDB[1] and other operators[2] we might see these prices coming closer to bare-metal.

[1] https://kubedb.com/ [2] https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator

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Re:Unbundling AWS by lukasLansky on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:09AM (#21676071)
Yep, this is exactly it. By the way, even SQL Server can use Kubernetes for HA nowadays.[1]

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/tutorial-sql-serv...

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Re:Unbundling AWS by MuffinFlavored on Sunday December 01, 2019 @10:34AM (#21675918)
Does running Postgres in a container hurt performance?
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Re:Unbundling AWS by Nullabillity on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:46AM (#21676278)
Not inherently, but if you want to use provisioned storage then your storage driver[0] will have some cost (unless you use local storage).

Of course, if you're on AWS then you'd be paying the EBS tax either way.

[0]: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/storage-classes/...

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Re:Unbundling AWS by ec109685 on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:48AM (#21676288)
No.
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Re:Unbundling AWS by ci5er on Monday December 02, 2019 @09:13AM (#21682419)
It used to be unreliable. Is it not now?
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Re:Unbundling AWS by ec109685 on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @09:04PM (#21698991)
I don't think so. We run a bunch of things in k8s / docker and you can achieve bare metal performance.
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