The 75% latency improvement on Spinnaker is wild. Most migrations go the other direction where you trade some performance for operational simplicity, but Aurora's storage-compute split actually improved throughput here. The real insight is in the operationl burden piece tho. Babysitting failovers and manual patching is tech debt that compounds. Reclaiming that engineering time probably unlocked way more value than the 28% cost savings alone.
The 75% latency improvement on Spinnaker is wild. Most migrations go the other direction where you trade some performance for operational simplicity, but Aurora's storage-compute split actually improved throughput here. The real insight is in the operationl burden piece tho. Babysitting failovers and manual patching is tech debt that compounds. Reclaiming that engineering time probably unlocked way more value than the 28% cost savings alone.