SL#129 - AWS Services (20/120) - Amazon RDS: What Managed Actually Manages, a Failover You Trigger on Purpose, and the Downtime You Can Measure

RDS runs the database engine you already know and takes over everything underneath it. We build a Multi-AZ PostgreSQL instance, hammer it with a connection prober, force a failover, and read the outage off the clock. Plan 60 to 90 minutes and a small bill.