: Possible to have an RDS > 3072GB on AWS? I am a complete newb to AWS. I have a MYSQL database that is about 4TB and growing each day and would like to move it to AWS. According to this

@Courtney195

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/, a custom MySQL from Amazon, supposedly 100% compatible and faster, will scale up to 64TB when released in final. Now in preview (5/2015).

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@Turnbaugh106

3TB is massive for the majority of Amazon's customers

The majority of Amazon's customers consume far less than 3TB databases in fact the majority will use less than 5GB. The problem with with databases or generally those offered by services such as MySQL is that the bigger the database the more resources they use. It would be economy not viable for most to host databases even anywhere close to that because 3TB is over 0 in storage costs a month along with bandwidth costs on the RDS instance it becomes very expensive to do so unless you have very good margins on your products and services.

Multiple RDS Instances

The work around to this problem is to use multiple RDS databases, I suspect that when a database gets to a certain size it becomes better to use multiple databases unless you use some kind of horizontal scaling which I believe SQL does not unless its MongoDB or similar.

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