I made AWS Lose Money - Here's How!

Hello @codeline,

Thanks for your comment :grinning:

You’re right that AWS (BTW any cloud provider) should be used with caution, as theirs pricing model are depending of the usage of the service (which made theirs force too). At a certain point, it can be very costly (CloudWatch Logs for ex.).

As for DBMSs, i would not say that it’s expensive, or at least it’s a good thing to put money on.

It’s all depending on the resources of your team, if you have peoples that can handle the maintenance/monitoring/tuning of your DB.

AWS DocumentDB / RDS might be more expensive than on-premises instances, but how much will you save for the resources that you consume on your team to monitor and tune your cluster?

I think that is one of the question-keys to knowing if it can feet for you. 

From my point of view and from my experiences, this type of service is peace of mind because AWS is taking care of the availability and all maintenance/tuning tasks, imagine if you lost your data or have issues, it clearly will have a huge impact on your business. Furthermore, some tasks are ridiculously easy like adding read replicas instances, scaling instances...

They’re no good or bad answers, I think that most of the time it’s depending on your business and of course the resources that you have!

Thanks ;)

Paul-Élie