The person I replied to said they wanted an open-source reimplementation of Aurora. My point - which was probably poorly-worded, or just implied - was that there's a lot of work that goes into something like that, and if you can't put the pieces together on your own, you probably shouldn't be running it for anything you can't afford downtime on.
Managed services have a clear value proposition. I personally think they're grossly overpriced, but I understand the appeal. Asking for that experience but also free / cheap doesn't make any sense.
> Asking for that experience but also free / cheap doesn't make any sense.
Things that used to be very expensive suddenly gets available for free after someone builds an open source version of it. That's just the nature of open source.
It's unreasonable to demand it from someone, but people do build things and release them for free all the time! Indeed, it makes plenty of sense to imagine that at some point in time, open source offerings of Postgres will be comparable to Aurora in ease of use.
Managed services have a clear value proposition. I personally think they're grossly overpriced, but I understand the appeal. Asking for that experience but also free / cheap doesn't make any sense.