> We have one drop out at least weekly, if not more often.

You mean an instance? A cluster wont go down because of that.

I dont work for AWS :-) and dont want to convince you of anything. But there is a reason why they developed Aurora, and DynamoDB and it was not because some software developer had hours to waste...

Yes, an instance. You know you can set up hot standby for vanilla MySQL and Postgres as well and achieve the same thing, right?

They developed those to make a shit ton of money, and on that front, they succeeded.