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Based on price, performance, and (ahem) reliability, I’m really puzzled as to who’d pick Aurora over PlanetScale. Am I missing something obvious?

PlanetScale@planetscale.com

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11/3/25, 6:13 pm8 reposts45 likes

JauntyWunderKind

@jauntywunderkind.bsky.social

11 Mar 2025

The hypersclaers iops/$ is deranged. Decades of barely budging price. This is one of the main things pushing folks to on prem. Something has got to give.

David Minor

@dminor.bsky.social

11 Mar 2025

Possibly HIPAA compliance? Looks like you need their enterprise plan for that.

PlanetScale

@planetscale.com

12 Mar 2025

Available on all plans!

Nick Van Wiggeren

@nvw.io

11 Mar 2025

I may be biased, but I don't think you're missing anything!

Danny Banks

@dbanks.design

11 Mar 2025

It's got electrolytes?

Corey Quinn

@quinnypig.com

11 Mar 2025

Plus if you run PlanetScale instances your Savings Plans apply to them; you don’t need to jump through the lazy RDS team’s Reserved Instance hoops to get reasonable discounting.

Tim Reynolds

@timjreynolds.bsky.social

11 Mar 2025

If you’re at the scale where sharding your database is necessary, then yes, you’re already dealing with the same trade-offs you’ll get here, which are essentially just Vitess trade offs. But if you don’t need that scale just run a single RDS with failover for simplicity

Corey Quinn

@quinnypig.com

11 Mar 2025

Yeah, it’s “Aurora” I’m interested in the competitive story around, not “MySQL on RDS or EC2” here.

Michael Ayres

@random-coder-1.bsky.social

12 Mar 2025

Storage costs seem high, and cpu vs ram is lopsided whereas aws offers a lot of options for any which way you want to shoot yourself in the foot.