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It must be a fun job to spend the day poking software looking for holes.

Wish I could do this all day long...

Aside, the fact that it took almost 4 months to remediate all accounts is crazy. AWS and cloud in general was supposed to make it dumb easy to upgrade, patch and maintain infra software in production.

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OK, now run the same remediation process except now you're maintaining all of your high availability database clusters yourself. :-)

RDS, simple as it may seem on the surface, is one of the things I'm most grateful for in AWS.

The reason it took 4 months is because I don't think classic RDS can upgrade databases online. You'll either need to failover or have a few minutes of downtime. This is no different to on-prem.

Aurora might be a different situation, not sure.

Yes, it requires a little bit of work and scheduling. Very different to running the entire thing yourself, though!

> Aside, the fact that it took almost 4 months to remediate all accounts is crazy. AWS and cloud in general was supposed to make it dumb easy to upgrade, patch and maintain infra software in production.

Easy doesn't mean fast.

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