For their hosted system, it's not particularly worse than hosted Postgres on RDS. RDS costs $0.50/hr for a 4 core/32GB db.r5.xlarge. Azure-hosted Citus for mult

For their hosted system, it's not particularly worse than hosted Postgres on RDS. RDS costs $0.50/hr for a 4 core/32GB db.r5.xlarge. Azure-hosted Citus for multi-node workloads on a similarly sized node are $0.618/node/hr. Both double in price to have a high availability backup cluster. https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/pricing/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/postgresql/hyperscale-citus/#pricing https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/postgresql... Of course, the answer is that both are insane markups. But it's worth being able to focus on other things!