--- title: Database Performance Discussions Usually Change Once... description: As database workloads scale, infrastructure cost and performance tradeoffs become increasingly visible. A benchmark comparing AWS RDS and Civo Postgres is... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/database-performance-discussions-usually-change-once-infrastructure-costs-start-scaling-ghrjyexcu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Database Performance Discussions Usually Change Once Infrastructure Costs Start Scaling | daily.dev og:description: As database workloads scale, infrastructure cost and performance tradeoffs become increasingly visible. A benchmark comparing AWS RDS and Civo Postgres is... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/database-performance-discussions-usually-change-once-infrastructure-costs-start-scaling-ghrjyexcu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GhRJYexcU.png og:image:alt: Database Performance Discussions Usually Change Once Infrastructure Costs Start Scaling og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Database Performance Discussions Usually Change Once Infrastructure Costs Start Scaling **[Dev Squad](https://daily.dev/sources/devsquad)** · [@divyansh30](https://daily.dev/divyansh30) · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary As database workloads scale, infrastructure cost and performance tradeoffs become increasingly visible. A benchmark comparing AWS RDS and Civo Postgres is highlighted, evaluating both performance metrics (IOPS, latency, storage) and operational cost efficiency rather than just monthly pricing. ## Content At smaller scale, managed databases usually feel interchangeable. The application works. Queries run. Everything seems fine. But once workloads grow and infrastructure costs start increasing, database discussions become much more operational than people initially expect. Storage performance. IOPS limits. Latency. Cost scaling. That’s usually where infrastructure tradeoffs start becoming much more visible. The pricing usually looks straightforward until higher performance tiers start becoming necessary. In practice, performance discussions usually turn into infrastructure efficiency discussions pretty quickly. I found this benchmark useful because it compares AWS RDS and Civo Postgres from both the performance and operational cost perspective instead of only comparing monthly cost numbers: [https://www.kubeblogs.com/aws-rds-vs-civo-postgres-benchmark/](https://www.kubeblogs.com/aws-rds-vs-civo-postgres-benchmark/) ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Postgres vs Oracle](https://daily.dev/posts/postgres-vs-oracle-bthsrf1sf) · Tinybird · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Go ahead, self-host Postgres](https://daily.dev/posts/go-ahead-self-host-postgres-9xxotfi6r) · Lobsters · 76 upvotes · 5 comments - [Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs 18 — PlanetScale](https://daily.dev/posts/benchmarking-postgres-17-vs-18-planetscale-tzv6uysjb) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [PostgresBench: A Reproducible Benchmark for Postgres Services](https://daily.dev/posts/postgresbench-a-reproducible-benchmark-for-postgres-services-vzebpsymu) · ClickHouse · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Postgres Performance Issues and How to Scale Enterprise Databases](https://daily.dev/posts/postgres-performance-issues-and-how-to-scale-enterprise-databases-45la2q8nu) · SingleStore · 3 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#postgresql](https://daily.dev/tags/postgresql), [#aws-rds](https://daily.dev/tags/aws-rds) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/database-performance-discussions-usually-change-once-infrastructure-costs-start-scaling-ghrjyexcu) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/database-performance-discussions-usually-change-once-infrastructure-costs-start-scaling-ghrjyexcu","headline":"Database Performance Discussions Usually Change Once Infrastructure Costs Start Scaling","text":"As database workloads scale, infrastructure cost and performance tradeoffs become increasingly visible. 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