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Fran Soto's avatar

Nice article!

I'm curious on the decision from our two engineers to handle the database on their own for many of the initial phases instead of offloading to a fully managed database service in AWS (DDB or RDS depending on needs).

What could be the reasons they decided to host them in EC2 instances? Costs? A particular DB technology not offered as a service in AWS?

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Anton Zaides's avatar

Loved the story format! It keeps the article engaging :)

A question though - won't the pre-launch stack be enough for steps 1-3? I'm doing a small project myself, and we indeed chose Amplify, Lambda and RDS. What's the advantages of an EC2 instance versus Lambdas? Cost savings?

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