Dont go for IOPS , but price. Make sure that there is replication and fail over... people at this stage just want to make sure that their data isn't lost. Use c

Dont go for IOPS , but price. Make sure that there is replication and fail over... people at this stage just want to make sure that their data isn't lost. Use cheap hardware like ovh - you can beat AWS on price. Plus, googling for "hosted postgresql" is still something that can be competed upon.