Amazon RDS
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
6recommend
12warn against
Nov 3, 2025first mention
Jun 8, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Use EC2, EBS, S3, Route53 plus EKS, RDS, ElastiCache.”
“RDS for production is great”
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“using some of the managed services, which are rock solid”
Former startup CTOon “AWS deprecates two dozen services (most of which you…”
“I've found that AWS does a pretty good job, like in the postgres compatible RDS case, of suggesting defaults”
Caveats and dissent
“I've heard the same thing in the past from people attempting to use RDS”
“RDS PostgreSQL “legacy fee” — ~€200* for March”
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“they cost soo much compared to running your own stuff”
“we replaced pinecone and rds with neon under the hood”
Often compared with
Amazon S3Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Postgres extension complements pgvector for performance and scale 3 mentions
- Does Postgres Scale? 2 mentions
- Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust 2 mentions
- Go ahead, self-host Postgres 2 mentions
- AWS deprecates two dozen services (most of which you've never heard of) 2 mentions
- Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication 1 mention
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All comments 26
“Use EC2, EBS, S3, Route53 plus EKS, RDS, ElastiCache.”
“In the days of AWS RDS”
“I've heard the same thing in the past from people attempting to use RDS”
“RDS also has a curated set of extensions?”
I built https://github.com/k0nserv/plid with Pgrx and had a great time. I did have to scale back some of the magic (dropping derive PostgresType etc), but even so the support pgrx provides is excellent. I also talked to the maintainers a bit in discord and they were super helpful. The one downside of custom extensions is that you aren’t, AFAIK, able to use them with many hosted Postgres installs, notably AWS RDS.
“RDS PostgreSQL “legacy fee” — ~€200* for March”
“they cost soo much compared to running your own stuff”
“we replaced pinecone and rds with neon under the hood”
“RDS for production is great”
“maxing out connections on RDS”
“I really just wish RDS supported the timescale extension”
“AWS RDS is about 10x more expensive than bare metal”
“(also not available on RDS)”
“moved from rds to tiger cloud”
correct afaik :( https://github.com/timescale/pgvectorscale/issues/113
“I moved from AWS RDS to ScaleWay RDS, had the same effect on cost”
“we use RDS for our app DB”
“What’s more common is the use case managed databases like RDS etc solves for.”
“I have never found it to beat RDS”
“using some of the managed services, which are rock solid”
“I've found that AWS does a pretty good job, like in the postgres compatible RDS case, of suggesting defaults”
“I don't care for the way RDS limits your options on extensions and configuration”
“Handy feature for accomplishing similar goal”
“That is already triple the cost of the NAS in my bedroom.”
“Skills: AI agents, Python, Node.js, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFormation, Terraform, RDS, Pytest, Docker, Kubernetes”
“AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB)”