If you're spending time jumping through hoops with RDS, then it's very possible bare-metal will be easier. I don't believe the same is true today but in the pa

If you're spending time jumping through hoops with RDS, then it's very possible bare-metal will be easier. I don't believe the same is true today but in the past we did exactly this because we were spending a bunch of time banging our collective heads against some RDS idiosyncrasies and it turned out running our own Postgres was a breeze. Plenty of things can and should just simply be bought. It's not always so cut and dry, though.