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I am not seeing the margins in this $5/mo instance but I could be wrong!
by iancarroll 2y ago
I am not seeing the margins in this $5/mo instance but I could be wrong!
- eljimmy 2y agoWe're using the highest tier Postgres instance at my work for one of our legacy Heroku apps and it costs thousands over what we'd pay for the equivalent on AWS directly.
- iancarroll 2y agoSure, but those are not related to Aurora or this post.
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- eljimmy 2y agoUm, what? It's literally what we're talking about haha
- iancarroll 2y agoThis post is talking about plans that are at most $20/month. I don't believe the other Heroku plans are on Aurora.
- jmspring 2y agoI know Salesforce has a huge AWS presence. That said, is it possible they are doing multitenancy? I don't know myself.
- throwaway984393 2y ago[dead]
- csande17 2y agoAccording to https://elements.heroku.com/addons/heroku-postgresql https://elements.heroku.com/addons/heroku-postgresql the instances they're using for this tier have zero bytes of RAM, so presumably that's where they're getting most of their cost savings from.
- michaelmior 2y agoI'm assuming this means that they are not providing any sort of guarantee on the amount of RAM available and packing these instances as tightly as they can.
- csande17 2y agoI like to think they just aren't installing any RAM in the servers and running all the databases out of L3 cache
- eezing 2y ago“Amazon Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, autoscaling configuration for Amazon Aurora. It automatically starts up, shuts down, and scales capacity up or down based on your application's needs.”