Amazon RDS vs Google Cloud SQL

• RDS provides high availability databases without having to manage your own servers.
• Amazon Aurora in particular is a breakthrough database technology, and in particular with the PostgreSQL engine provides advanced features at a fraction of the cost of an Oracle implementation, with better features that have been designed from the ground up to support the cloud.
• Aurora also allows supports large clusters of database servers easily, with super fast replication (~20 ms), and flexibility to allow changing resources provisioned based on workload.

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• Super easy to set up: new instance -> Authorization -> play
• Automatic backup every night! (Keeps past 7 days as copy as well)
• Automatic failover, in case your main SQL instance fails, they automatically switch you over.

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• Hard to debug performance issues at times since it is a managed service and we don't have all privileges.

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• It could be cheaper. Definitely cheaper.
• It could provide more information about failovers.
• It could allow you to customize more.

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• Positive - Move to Redshift from Oracle could save us up to 50% annually on database licensing
• Positive - Move to Aurora is helping us save on on premise support we pay for mySQL
• Negative - still, hard to find a true cost of ownership until several months of use under you're belt

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• Saved about 60% from moving to custom SQL instances
• 99% faster deployment = lower cost for deployment in man-hours
• It is hard to add access while doing development on the go.

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