Managed Database Pricing

Discussions focus on the high costs of managed database services like PlanetScale, AWS RDS, CockroachDB, and Postgres offerings, with comparisons to alternatives such as DynamoDB, self-hosting, or other providers like MotherDuck and Digital Ocean.

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re-thc May 20, 2023 View on HN

Better than Planetscale at 2.5 per GB and you have to pay for replicas.

dman Oct 10, 2018 View on HN

How can it be your largest expense but running your own db would save only a couple of bucks?

TeeWEE Apr 18, 2018 View on HN

How expensive is this compared to, for example AWS RDS?

mritchie712 Jun 11, 2024 View on HN

Did you check the cost to run it on Motherduck (https://motherduck.com/)?

ddorian43 Aug 5, 2015 View on HN

what is your backend stack ?is redshift that cost effective ?

quickthrower2 Feb 6, 2023 View on HN

Why is postgres particularly overpriced in clouds?

metadat May 24, 2022 View on HN

Seems a little pricey.. are they competing with AWS Managed Postgres?

tlogan Nov 23, 2011 View on HN

Hmm.. It seems expensive. For this price I would chose Oracle Database RDS. Small Oracle DB instance is ~120/month on AWS.

dreyfan Nov 6, 2021 View on HN

Sure, but we're addressing people who are so far on the other end of the spectrum they're using a "serverless" database where they pay for the number of rows scanned per query. I think a managed DB is a better middle-ground for their capability level while still delivering massive cost-savings.Amazon RDS lowest-tier runs about $13/mo for 10GB storage, 2 vCPUs and 1GB memory with automated backups and push-button restoring. And that would have likely met all of their n

wizwit999 Aug 10, 2022 View on HN

Why not just use DynamoDB at that point, would likely be cheaper.