Yes PostgreSQL is awesome. From my experience with a large installation, we had many more issues with the actual hardware on EC2, than we had with postgres whic

Yes PostgreSQL is awesome. From my experience with a large installation, we had many more issues with the actual hardware on EC2, than we had with postgres which ran on said hardware. However, I was pleasantly surprised Amazon's RDS now supports PostgreSQL too, so you can abstract away most of the hardware considerations, assuming they've optimized their stack: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/ https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/