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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by manigandham on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @11:58PM (#13649814)
There are several managed hosting companies that will run Postgres (and other databases) for you on public clouds. Compose, Aiven, ElephantSQL, Database Labs, Heroku, etc. There are all kinds of price points and GCP is working on supporting postgres internally.

How many nodes are you looking to run for $300/month? Unless you have more than 150gb/node of data, you don't really need a distributed database which is what Citus is for.

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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by sandGorgon on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @03:46AM (#13650623)
not at the price point that RDS is at. the starting cost of a multi - az deployment is lower. For a startup thats just starting out, it is the best and safest choice. Even heroku, but im not very sure about its reliability versus rds.

Please note what im paying for is availability and reliability.. not for a database per se.

And im not even talking Aurora. That stuff is going to blow every other price point out of the water at probably higher reliability metrics.

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