Everyone who says they can run a database better than Amazon is probably lying or Has a story about how they had to miss a family event because of an outage.
The point isn’t that you can’t do it, the point is that it’s less work for extremely high standards. It is not easy to configure multi region failover without an entire network team and database team unless you don’t give a shit about it actually working. Oh yea, and wait until you see how much SOC2 costs if you roll your own database.
One don’t necessarily need to run a DB better than Amazon. Just sufficiently good for the product/service you’re are working on. And depending on specifics it may costs much less (but your mileage may vary).
The point isn’t that you can’t do it, the point is that it’s less work for extremely high standards. It is not easy to configure multi region failover without an entire network team and database team unless you don’t give a shit about it actually working. Oh yea, and wait until you see how much SOC2 costs if you roll your own database.