Your first paragraph "just use a MySQL container" and the second "test against what prod runs on", seem to contradict?
> If not, you are asking for eventual outage in Prod when some slightly different AWS thing bites you.
Exactly...
> If not, you are asking for eventual outage in Prod when some slightly different AWS thing bites you.
Exactly...
Whole point is this stuff is for those who think running Dev RDS is too expensive.