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Re:Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.6.1 by markonen on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @03:30AM (#12956490)
In this context it's useful to note that RDS instance pricing is ~50% higher than the pricing for the underlying EC2 instances. That 50% reflects the (pure software) value-add over EC2.

When someone like Heroku offers a competing product, the fact that the product is also being run on EC2 is only a part of the overall story. Over time, AWS will probably be less and less happy with earning just the bare infrastructure dollars for such use.

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Re:Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.6.1 by merb on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @03:36AM (#12956513)
> In this context it's useful to note that RDS instance pricing is ~50% higher than the pricing for the underlying EC2 instances. That 50% reflects the (pure software) value-add over EC2.

Just build a HA RDS Cluster yourself with Click and Scale, than you can sell it to me with ~25% higher prices than the EC2 instances. Btw. AWS RDS is cheaper than most other competitors like ElephantSQL.

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Re:Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 9.6.1 by markonen on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @03:40AM (#12956540)
Just stating a fact about their pricing (in the context of whether Heroku is a competitor or not). Not judging the relative value of the offerings at all. I'm an RDS user, FWIW.
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