It is depends ob your ability to pursue either of paths later in life. If you choose Amazon you would be earning money while at Cambridge you would be spending money. BUT on the long term after Cambridge you would earn more money.
So, if you see yourself starting at amazon, working a couple years, going to Cambridge later - you will join it with a much better background and experience, you will get more from the education. If you cant do that, go for Cambridge. Amazon wont get you enough experience to sustain on a long term
Databricks introduced Lakebase exactly for this purpose. Lakebase supports branching that makes querying, schema evolution and writes cheap. Each agent can run its own branch without affecting production data.
Have the author did the reality check exercise? What might seem as awful conditions by some westerner, might be great given other options. Once I read a post about working at Foxconn - assembly line for majority of hardware manufacturers. You might remember people were dropping off the roof because of hard working conditions. Yet they have a line of candidates. Because the other option is working at the same intensity but at no conditioned and barely ventilated clothing shop.
The answer depends on where you would like to spend your time on. If you believe your customers will be yours because yourygreat at operating poatgress datbase - do it, if your value in something else, go with AWS RDs postgress.
Younwill save a ton of time in exchange of delegating database management to aws. Use this time to develop features your customera are looking for. If you would like to leave aws eventually it still be the same postgress that you can run anywhere you like
This is very oversimplified view on what happens and thus provides wrong solution.
I would recommend you to watch this interview https://youtu.be/6xIeLJGcpfU. Alexander Shtefanov is not
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So, if you see yourself starting at amazon, working a couple years, going to Cambridge later - you will join it with a much better background and experience, you will get more from the education. If you cant do that, go for Cambridge. Amazon wont get you enough experience to sustain on a long term