As someone who took a stab at automating slony deployment and configuration, I have to agree that the replication situation is not quite there yet. There are maybe 2-3 examples online on how to use some of those tools, and maybe half a dozen people who actually would be able to answer questions about them. Betting your business&#x27;s scaling future on that kind of tooling is terrifying.<p>Would be great to have both out of the box failover (you can get that in RDS nowadays) and logical replication. I suppose the latter can stave off the need for sharding for a while.<p>I believe there&#x27;s work happening for UDR&#x2F;BDR right now that will be in the product by 9.5 or 9.6