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It's strange not to mention vanilla RDS (only Aurora is mentioned). Is RDS much more expensive?

• some_account 8y ago
  I was looking into it a bit before. The smallest RDS instance was like 11 dollars per month and can't use spot instances (naturally). If you do use spot instance with a local postgres on EBS, it comes down to about 4 dollars per month all together. With instance store, that should be around 3 dollars. These are for t2 micro. If you use bigger instances, the money difference will be huge. RDS is just way too expensive for small projects.
  • dpeck 8y ago
    $11/month is too expensive for a small project?
    • some_account 8y ago
      It's my private project of trying to build an interesting browser plug-in using aws services. I want to keep the costs super low since I need it running all the time but will only use a handful of computers running my plugins while developing. I do it partly to learn about aws features, partly because I would like if this plug-in existed myself and it doesn't :)
• cntlzw 8y ago
  Yes, Aurora is not cheap if you run bigger instances with slaves. But I can't compare it with costs running bare metal in datacenter.