It's interesting to see this launch just days after Heroku Postgres 2.0 (https://postgres.heroku.com/blog/past/2013/11/11/heroku_post...). I would like to see a thorough comparison.

I'm happy to see that this appears to be a full-featured (or near fully featured) service that includes postgis and hstore.

I'm looking forward to seeing the inevitable rds vs comparably priced heroku benchmarks.

Really happy to see this.

The only thing that seems to be missing is pl/v8 support. In case anyone from amazon is reading this, I've noticed that the functions floating around on github for the new json data type are using pl/v8, and I suspect this will only become more common.

No plpython either, but since that's an untrusted language, I can totally see why they're not supporting it.

Why is PostgreSQL more expensive than MySQL?

I'll just leave this here:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Things_to_find_out_about_whe...

Plus, I've heard that mysql will ignore maxlength for chars, causing issues when moving those to postgres.

That is extremely out of date and no longer relevant.

As someone who's never used RDS - does this let you adjust the postgresql.conf settings? Specifically interested in turning off synchronous commit or adjusting shared_buffers. If that is possible this would be a godsend.

You can use the Amazon RDS Parameter Groups to exercise control over dozens of PostgreSQL settings.

Great feature!

Crazy fast? The first request of Postgres on RDS was made over 4 years ago. https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=37834&sta...

True, they weren't very fast on this one. But they're usually good at quickly pushing out new services/features/apis and integrating new products from acquired companies.