loco77

It's only necessary in cases where there is an obvious conflict of interest.

The subjective opinion was about "following" when Amazon has had relational database services for years, and the latest engine they say was under development for 3 years, not exactly something in response to goog.

Irrespective of that you shouldn't be posting as joe public when in fact you are a Google employee playing cheerleader for Google products on threads about your competitors products. Keep it classy.

Fair point, I don't know what voodoo they use, but you can purchase monstrously big servers (you'll need more than just one fit availability in any event) and storage arrays that would exceed the performance requirements of the vast majority of plausible use cases. The cost of such equipment is likely more expensive than AWS though.

If you're going to post your subjective opinion on something involving your employer vs a competitor it's best to include a disclaimer in future.

There's nothing stopping you from using a scale-out architecture with Aurora, and nothing stopping you from running MySQL on your own hardware with loads of SSDs to get the throughput you are after.

Well if only AWS provides the scaling you need then what would you migrate off of AWS to? You could re-arch your app to scale out for some use cases as you suggest, but that's also an indicator that using AWS allowed you to get to market faster with a much simpler system that didn't require a far more complex design, many more engineering hours and more admin.

The point is you can run MySQL or any of its variants on your own hardware or anyone else's. Nobody forces you to use Amazon's implementation.

Aurora max looks like it's 64TB, that's 640 times larger, which I guess is what you're hinting at.

Your profile says you work at Google...

The interface is MySQL, no shortage of alternative implementations... Did Microsoft open source SQL Server?? How about the source code for ANY of their cloud services? They are ALL proprietary.

In his defence even googling GCP doesn't return that as a result on the first page. I was searching for the same thing.

4 times faster than MySQL on the same platform, how did they pull that off?