Genie: I'll give you one billion USD if you can spend 100 million within a month. There are three rules: no gifting, no gambling, and no throwing it away.
Engineer: Can I use AWS?
Genie: There are four rules.
- The internet
If there’s one thing that can truly scale infinitely, it’s your AWS bill. And among everything they offer, managed database services are undoubtedly the crown jewel. With charges for storage, CPU time, bandwidth, and even individual read and write operations, they’ve really thought of everything. Want a backup? That'll be extra. The sky is the limit.
As I’ve been exploring various infrastructure-as-a-service offerings, I’m increasingly fascinated by how many opportunities a database gives the provider to charge you. And yet, what wouldn’t you do to keep your data safe, consistent, and highly available?
And if you happen to be a database or systems expert – here's your 401(k).