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		sseveran on Aug 16, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YC Tech Stacks The value of AWS is all the other services that they offer. While you could assemble them yourself, building on AWS allows you to move really fast and scalable infrastructure.

tedmiston on Aug 16, 2016 [–]

Things like load balancers and database servers especially, though they do charge a pretty penny for the latter.

sseveran on Aug 16, 2016 | [–]

I use RDS Postgres and gladly pay for it. Love its snapshotting, backing up and failover.

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