I'd certainly recommend to run pooler on the same node to avoid double encryption. Reestablishing 2x connections, dealing with 2x restarts of VM - is kind of a

I'd certainly recommend to run pooler on the same node to avoid double encryption. Reestablishing 2x connections, dealing with 2x restarts of VM - is kind of a downside too. However it's not strictly neccesary, Odyssey can run even in another AZ :)