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You have data updates that happen at irregular intervals and don't want to be bothered with turning on and turning off a db instance.
by internet101010 2y ago
You have data updates that happen at irregular intervals and don't want to be bothered with turning on and turning off a db instance.
- slt2021 2y agowhy keep separate postgres instance for this use case? One could easily have a single small Postgres instance for a few dollars that hosts all these small scale peanut sized toy databases and forget about it. if your main business critical database is not doing transactions and stays idle, you should be working on bringing more transactions (sales sales sales) - not trying to save pennies on downsized postgres by moving from SSD-fast postgres to S3-slow-postgres. I get that there are benefits to scaling up/down, but to me: Serverless is a billing model for multi-tenant services, where user is billed by service usage, not the actual underlying resource consumption. Because in multi-tenant SAAS all your tenants share the underlying infrastructure