Comparing AWS’s RDS and PlanetScale

This post details the advantages of PlanetScale over AWS RDS, focusing on scalability and developer workflows. It highlights Vitess's ability to handle nearly limitless connections and its query consolidation feature. It also contrasts PlanetScale's non-blocking schema changes and database branching for CI/CD with the complexities and downtime often associated with RDS. The post emphasizes PlanetScale's developer-first design and ease of use compared to RDS.