title: What are the respective advantages/limitations of Amazon RDS vs. EC2 with MySQL?
body: <p>I realize a couple of basic differences between the two, i.e.</p>
  
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  <li><p>EC2 is going to be cheaper</p></li>
  <li><p>RDS I wouldn't have to do maintenance</p></li>
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  <p>Other than those two, are there any advantages to running my database from RDS as opposed to a separate EC2 server acting as a MySQL server. Assuming similar instance sizes, are both going to run into the same limitations in terms of being able to handle a load?</p>
  
  <p>To give you a little bit more info about my use, I've got a database, nothing too big or anything (biggest table 1 million rows), just high SELECT volume.</p>