Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
the cheapest real instance here at $128 — before you add the pooler and the standby everyone needs.
the lowest verified instance cost in this ranking, on the understanding that pooling and high availability are both separate purchases.
$127.57 all-in makes rds the cheapest genuine 2 vcpu / 8gb instance here, and reserved instances take it lower still. it also has by far the broadest region coverage — 30-plus globally — which for data-residency requirements is often the deciding factor rather than price.
two costs sit outside that number and both are ones production systems tend to need. connection pooling isn't included: rds proxy is a separate service billed per vcpu-hour of the underlying instance. and multi-az, the standby that makes it highly available, roughly doubles the compute line to around $232.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- managed postgres providers
- pricing
- $127.57/mo at the anchor
- website
- aws.amazon.com
the lowest verified instance cost in this ranking, on the understanding that pooling and high availability are both separate purchases.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.
more managed postgres providers
Crunchy Bridge
we checked this$150/mo at the anchor$150 with pooling, backups and egress all included — the only bill here you can predict exactly.
Aiven
we checked this$150/mo at the anchorone flat $150 across six different clouds, with networking genuinely free — and recovery behind a paywall.