As far as the big players are concerned, Google offers AlloyDB (https://cloud.google.com/alloydb) while Amazon offers Aurora (https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/). - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Aurora is a managed database service from Amazon compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. It allows for the use of existing MySQL code, tools, and applications and can offer increased performance for certain workloads compared to MySQL and PostgreSQL. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

See my other comment on this thread. More typically you'd use RDS for external DB. Aurora is a megascale version. Source: about 1 year ago

If you get to a point where RDS cannot handle your work load you can migrate to Amazon Aurora: Https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/. Source: over 1 year ago

Just like how DB replication and load-balancers exists for ~20 years, SC is making far worse version of them under different name. So this "budget" thingy is just another distraction for cult to discuss, so the followers can claim "they know game development". Source: over 1 year ago

Amazon Keyspaces is a database service highly compatible with Apache Cassandra. It is a readily available service that can handle a high range of requests per second. Hence, Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers use Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) in order to modernize their Cassandra workloads. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

Over time, we should have only dockers and lambda functions in our compute. While doing this, we should also discard the EC2 instances one by one and move onto Fargate. Drop the Kafka or other messaging services and move to Kinesis, EventBridge, SNS or SQS, as per the requirement. Migrate to cloud native databases like Aurora, DocumentDB, DynamoDB, and other purpose built databases like TimeStream, Keyspace,... - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago