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Is anyone here using RDS in production? Are you seeing good performance?

We're using it in production in service we just launched. "Performance" is a relative term. We measured performance in:

1. Minimal amount of time to setup (minutes) 2. Minimal amount of time to maintain (none) 3. Minimal amount of time to make redundant (none, see Multi-AZ support just announced)

By the time the segment of our data we're keeping in RDS exceeds the capacity of the largest instance size AWS offers ... it'll be a very good problem to have.

But did you benchmark it against MySQL running on a bare metal box? That's the "performance" benchmark I was interested in...

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