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A comment on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.

Re:Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL by LVB on Thursday November 14, 2013 @03:14PM (#6735203)
I've only ever used S3, but some of these AWS offerings do look interesting for my little projects. My question is, how do hours get calculated for billing? If I had my super low traffic blog using RDS, would I incur a few microseconds of time per DB hit, or is it rounded up to an hour, or is it the total time the DB is available period?
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Re:Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL by dangrossman on Thursday November 14, 2013 @03:18PM (#6735225)
You would be paying for 24 hours each day. You are renting a managed virtual server, and you pay for each hour this server is running in addition to usage fees for storage and IO operations when it's actually being accessed. It'd be $20-30/month to host the database for a very small blog.
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Re:Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL by chrismmccomas on Friday November 15, 2013 @02:52PM (#6741728)
To be fair, if you qualify for the AWS Free Usage Tier, you could run a small blog with RDS for $0 for the first year.
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