Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup

Re:Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup by pjungwir on Monday May 20, 2013 @12:45PM (#5738562)

A month or so ago I thought about starting a hosted Postgres service on top of EC2, since lots of people seem to want "RDS for Postgres." I think if you specialized you could beat Heroku's offering, but ultimately I decided there was too much risk of Amazon simply adding Postgres themselves. But if anyone is more daring than me, perhaps there is an opportunity here.

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Re:Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup by mh- on Monday May 20, 2013 @05:07PM (#5740039)

I saw this in the AWS marketplace (aws.amazon.com/marketplace) - http://www.enterprisedb.com/cloud-database/amazon

no experience or affiliation, though.

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Re:Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup by pjungwir on Monday May 20, 2013 @06:57PM (#5740726)

I saw that, but I could do better. :-) Heroku's Postgres-only option is the product to beat. It makes it really easy and has some great replication features. But a dedicated company could offer more.

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Re:Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup by mh- on Monday May 20, 2013 @07:15PM (#5740818)

I hadn't seen it prior reading/replying to your comment, but I thought it looked comparable to RDS as I skimmed http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/produ...

I've not used Heroku's Postgres stuff, so no idea what it offers beyond that

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Re:Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup by AlisdairO on Monday May 20, 2013 @04:48PM (#5739947)

I believe EnterpriseDB already offer something like this: http://www.enterprisedb.com/

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