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Re:PlanetScale is now generally available by moralestapia on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:17AM (#29241443)
You don't provision and manage the infrastructure associated with your DB. Someone else does it for you and you just focus on querying/storing the data and whatever else your business requires you to do.
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Re:PlanetScale is now generally available by zild3d on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:25AM (#29241555)
Not provisioning & managing is part of it, but the pricing model is important too. e.g. RDS and Mongo Atlas are managed database services so you're not provisioning and managing the infra, but you are paying for dedicated machines and their sizes, etc.
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Re:PlanetScale is now generally available by moralestapia on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:43AM (#29241776)
>but you are paying for dedicated machines and their sizes

I see this as provision & managing as well, but yes I see your point. Ultimately it's about the user only caring about its data and nothing else (to the extent possible).

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Re:PlanetScale is now generally available by jedberg on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @12:49PM (#29243741)
RDS still requires you to provision servers even if you aren't running them.
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Re:PlanetScale is now generally available by brazzledazzle on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @02:22PM (#29245204)
I think Aurora Serverless may be the one exception to that.
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Re:PlanetScale is now generally available by redwood on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @11:57AM (#29242935)
Atlas offers serverless today
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