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Product Storage Max Connection Monthly Pricing Essential-0 1 GB 20 $5 Essential-1 10 GB 20 $9 Essential-2 32 GB

Product Storage Max Connection Monthly Pricing Essential-0 1 GB 20 $5 Essential-1 10 GB 20 $9 Essential-2 32 GB 40 $20 The pricing looks quite competitive, although I'm not sure what the prior rates were. 10 years ago I spent 10x+ per month for 32GB (RAM) Heroku Postgres instances, IIRC they were around $400/mo, maybe even more.

fweimer 2y ago
That's 750$/month now, I think: https://elements.heroku.com/addons/heroku-postgresql#pricing https://elements.heroku.com/addons/heroku-postgresql#pricing (Standard 4)
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SahAssar 2y ago
> 10 years ago I spent 10x+ per month for 32GB (RAM) Heroku Postgres instances, IIRC they were around $400/mo, maybe even more. Aren't you comparing RAM vs Storage there? The pricing chart here says nothing about RAM.
macNchz 2y ago
These "Essential" tiers are bare bones instances for toys/mvps, they're much different than the bigger ones. No replication, 99.5% uptime target, no maintenance windows etc.
ca_peterson 2y ago
Heroku product here: the Essential 0 and 1 plans replace the older row-limited Heroku Postgres mini/basic plans at the same price points but better perf in a lot of scenarios and a storage instead of row limit - forcing people to denormalize for row count wasn't ideal under old mini/basic limits. The Essential-2 plan is a new option for a larger pre-prod/test/small-scale DB option above what we offered before. We're expanding the Aurora-backed offerings to include larger dedicated DBs in the relatively near future as well. Gail Frederick our CTO talked a bit more about it at high-level during re:Invent 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZLcv7rwj7Y&t=1955s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZLcv7rwj7Y&t=1955s
- vips7L 2y ago
  Why did I think you were leading the Apex product team?
  - ca_peterson 2y ago
    I was for quite a few years - moved to Heroku in Q3 last year for an interesting opportunity. Apex is in good hands with Daniel Ballinger (and I stay in touch with a bunch of team if that helps).
mebcitto 2y ago
I'm curious how the Essential plans work, given that Aurora pricing starts higher than that in monthly costs. It is probably databases in a shared multi-tenant Aurora instance, and then the single-tenant plans that are currently in pilot give you the full Aurora instance. That also explains some of the limitations and the low connection limits.

fweimer 2y ago

That's 750$/month now, I think: https://elements.heroku.com/addons/heroku-postgresql#pricing https://elements.heroku.com/addons/heroku-postgresql#pricing (Standard 4)

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SahAssar 2y ago

> 10 years ago I spent 10x+ per month for 32GB (RAM) Heroku Postgres instances, IIRC they were around $400/mo, maybe even more. Aren't you comparing RAM vs Storage there? The pricing chart here says nothing about RAM.

macNchz 2y ago

These "Essential" tiers are bare bones instances for toys/mvps, they're much different than the bigger ones. No replication, 99.5% uptime target, no maintenance windows etc.

ca_peterson 2y ago

Heroku product here: the Essential 0 and 1 plans replace the older row-limited Heroku Postgres mini/basic plans at the same price points but better perf in a lot of scenarios and a storage instead of row limit - forcing people to denormalize for row count wasn't ideal under old mini/basic limits. The Essential-2 plan is a new option for a larger pre-prod/test/small-scale DB option above what we offered before. We're expanding the Aurora-backed offerings to include larger dedicated DBs in the relatively near future as well. Gail Frederick our CTO talked a bit more about it at high-level during re:Invent 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZLcv7rwj7Y&t=1955s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZLcv7rwj7Y&t=1955s

vips7L 2y ago
Why did I think you were leading the Apex product team?
- ca_peterson 2y ago
  I was for quite a few years - moved to Heroku in Q3 last year for an interesting opportunity. Apex is in good hands with Daniel Ballinger (and I stay in touch with a bunch of team if that helps).

mebcitto 2y ago

I'm curious how the Essential plans work, given that Aurora pricing starts higher than that in monthly costs. It is probably databases in a shared multi-tenant Aurora instance, and then the single-tenant plans that are currently in pilot give you the full Aurora instance. That also explains some of the limitations and the low connection limits.