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Re:PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database by briffle on Friday April 03, 2020 @10:28AM (#22769458)
GCP does have HA for postgresql: https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/high-availability
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Re:PostgreSQL is the worlds’ best database by sandGorgon on Friday April 03, 2020 @11:16AM (#22770058)
GCP managed databases are more expensive than AWS.

They claim this is because (unlike AWS), they don't provision iops as "credits".

There is an opportunity to play in this price arbitrage space where you can take the cloud instances and manage a database on top of it.

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