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It's only necessary in cases where there is an obvious conflict of interest.

The subjective opinion was about "following" when Amazon has had relational database services for years, and the latest engine they say was under development for 3 years, not exact…

Fair point, I don't know what voodoo they use, but you can purchase monstrously big servers (you'll need more than just one fit availability in any event) and storage arrays that w…

If you're going to post your subjective opinion on something involving your employer vs a competitor it's best to include a disclaimer in future.

There's nothing stopping you from using a scale-out architecture with Aurora, and nothing stopping you from running MySQL on your own hardware with loads of SSDs to get the through…

Well if only AWS provides the scaling you need then what would you migrate off of AWS to? You could re-arch your app to scale out for some use cases as you suggest, but that's also…

The point is you can run MySQL or any of its variants on your own hardware or anyone else's. Nobody forces you to use Amazon's implementation.

Aurora max looks like it's 64TB, that's 640 times larger, which I guess is what you're hinting at.

Your profile says you work at Google...

The interface is MySQL, no shortage of alternative implementations... Did Microsoft open source SQL Server?? How about the source code for ANY of their cloud services? They are ALL…

In his defence even googling GCP doesn't return that as a result on the first page. I was searching for the same thing.

4 times faster than MySQL on the same platform, how did they pull that off?