Teams unsure when self-hosted Postgres beats managed RDS on true cost
Engineers debate the threshold at which self-hosted PostgreSQL pencils out versus managed RDS once ops overhead, on-call burden, storage, and bandwidth are priced in. Replies suggest RDS wins until the AWS bill genuinely hurts and a dedicated DBA exists.
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