Came here to say this. Aurora is good but also very expensive. If your queries are not very well tuned you will pay through the nose for I/O that would be unnot

Came here to say this. Aurora is good but also very expensive. If your queries are not very well tuned you will pay through the nose for I/O that would be unnoticeable in other Postgres implementations. For a very modest installation I saw DB bills go down from $3,000 a month on Aurora to about $100 for self managed Postgres.