We Built Fly Postgres

Re:We Built Fly Postgres by w-ll on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @05:33PM (#33808902)

Am I reading https://instances.vantage.sh/rds/?min_vcpus=4&cost_duration=... wrong. It seams you can get that as a db.t4g.xlarge for ~$188/month.

Still more than 2x the cost, but not nearly $760

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Re:We Built Fly Postgres by ithrow on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @06:15PM (#33809410)

$188 without storage and bandwidth.

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Re:We Built Fly Postgres by some_developer on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @06:47PM (#33809793)

> for ~$188/month.

Note that this is still the on-demand price.

Although it's still not Apple to Apple, no one (sane) would useRDS 24x7 without RI. That probably brings you down another 50 bucks or so.

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Re:We Built Fly Postgres by mnutt on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @06:53PM (#33809875)

The t4g instances are also burstable so running your database with 4 cores under load would either get you throttled or produce more charges.

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Re:We Built Fly Postgres by losteric on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @09:19PM (#33811456)

and the price excludes the 1.5 TB EBS volume

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Re:We Built Fly Postgres by whakim on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @09:13PM (#33811401)

Yeah, tack on another $115 or so for the 1TB of storage. And as a sibling comment mentions, on-demand pricing means it isn't really an apples-to-apples comparison. In almost every case other than a hobby project it feels like the convenience of RDS vastly outweighs the savings of ~$250 you'd get by self-hosting.

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