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Comparing AWS’s RDS and PlanetScale

We have been blown away by the reception to our product from the developer community, but maybe even more surprising are the number of customers switching from RDS to PlanetScale lately. I’ll do my best to quickly lay out the main reasons we see so many businesses switching to PlanetScale from AWS RDS. Amazon RDS is a relational database service by Amazon Web Services. Essentially, RDS MySQL is a database in the cloud. PlanetScale is similarly a MySQL database hosted in the cloud, but with an em

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