Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In late 2017, Airbnb did an AWS "This is My Architecture" video. The video talks about how they tested their Amazon RDS databases.

Now, a few years later, I react to that video and see what's stood the test of time, what could be done simpler given today's technology, and generally critique the design against the AWS Well-Architected Framework in a mini AWS Well-Architected Review.

The original video: youtu.be/sMP2LsgtGQM

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