Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

Re:Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL by kvinnako on Thursday November 14, 2013 @12:34PM (#6733731)

Somehow it seems pretty costly...Wouldn't it be cheaper for me to just run it on my virtual instance that's hosting the app and probably just back it up with S3.

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Re:Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL by jon-wood on Thursday November 14, 2013 @12:48PM (#6733864)

If you place no value on you're time then yes, it would be cheaper to just run it on your own EC2 instance. There's a lot to be said for not having to worry about the day to day of maintaining a database server though.

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Re:Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL by bjeanes on Thursday November 14, 2013 @01:25PM (#6734254)

Well said. It's frustrating how much people want to do price comparisons on the commodity instead of the service.

You're paying for the "as a service" part of PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, *aaS.

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Re:Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL by cmelbye on Thursday November 14, 2013 @06:19PM (#6736469)

Costly? This is dirt cheap compared to what we've been using.

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