I was also disappointed in the statement of price drops - that marketing-statement of price drops alone makes me look around for alternatives. And the statement

I was also disappointed in the statement of price drops - that marketing-statement of price drops alone makes me look around for alternatives. And the statement below, "Our limits exist primarily to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot" - well that is just arrogant. If I aim at my feet, let me be a fool and pull the trigger. It is nice to see that Amazon now offers Postgresql: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/11/amazon-rds-for-postgresql-now-available.html http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/11/amazon-rds-for-postgresql... The old plans with 1TB and 500 connections made me feel comfortably ignorant of our needs, but with the new plans I must contemplate connection limits and storage capacity, and I really like not thinking about that at all. With that said, the new features with HA and rollback is a needed addition. But I would be more likely to use HA if I could just create a follower and for an extra $50 make it automatic failover.