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Re:$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres by lab14 on Monday December 15, 2025 @01:55PM (#46278696)
> so if you’re hosted there, it should be about the same latency as using their managed DB service.

yes and no. In my AWS account I can explicitly pick an AZ (us-east-2a, us-east-2b or us-east-2c) but Availability Zones are not consistent between AWS accounts.

See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit...

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Re:$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres by wrs on Monday December 15, 2025 @03:40PM (#46280301)
But that's exactly why they introduced the AZ IDs (use1-az1 as opposed to us-east-1a), so you can tell whether you're really in the same zone, regardless of the name you see in a particular account.
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Re:$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres by lab14 on Monday December 15, 2025 @06:05PM (#46282146)
Ah, thanks Internet stranger. TIL.
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