Is your AWS RDS bill bloated?
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A survey of 32 developers using AWS RDS reveals widespread cost waste: 63% only need full production compute capacity for 8 hours or less per day, and 56% use dev/test instances for 4 hours or less daily. Using a typical deployment example (one db.m5.4xlarge production instance plus 10 db.t3.large dev/test instances), roughly 72% of the monthly compute budget (~$1,514/month) is wasted on idle resources. The post presents Neon's serverless Postgres platform with autoscaling and scale-to-zero features as a solution to eliminate overprovisioning and idle non-production database costs.
