Last place I worked self-hosted. Price performance on old hardware was (and seemingly is) drastically better than cloud DB for smaller usage. Current work is us

Last place I worked self-hosted. Price performance on old hardware was (and seemingly is) drastically better than cloud DB for smaller usage. Current work is using AWS RDS and it seems to perform pretty poorly unless we're willing to pay a lot more than our scale justifies. (Frankly, I suspect running our prod DB on a developer laptop would outperform the low-cost RDS setup we're using...)