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So this looks pretty amazing. As a heavy postgres user, is there any reason why I shouldn't be using this? Or actually it's strictly superior in all regards?

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From the article: On the stored procedure side, we are planning to support Perl, pgSQL, Tcl, and JavaScript (via the V8 JavaScript engine). We are also planning to support all of the PostgreSQL features and extensions that are supported in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.

Since they listed "planning to" I assume these aren't available yet, so if you use any extensions or stored functions you'll probably need to hold back until these are available.

So weird that you're not supporting python for stored procedures.

RDS doesn't support untrusted languages which includes Python [1].

1. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/plpython.html

This is actually a TIL for me, I've always just use pl/pgsql for sprocs as I've never had a need for anything beyond what it provides - I didn't realize the 'u' in python was for 'untrusted'.

It will cost a lot more than a single DB, and a bit more than a pair of DBs.

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