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Comment by tomaskafka | Hacker News Reader

5 GB database with 2 GB RAM for $132/month (tier D4)?

Seriously, who is this for? I have no idea - SSD VPS like this is about $10/mo ...

That is pricing for 1st Generation, which is a whole different product that does not support Postgres. The pricing for Postgres is here: https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/pricing#pg-pricin...

    (1*0.0413+2*0.0070)*730 + 5*0.17 = $41.22/month
      1 vCPU   2GB RAM        5GB SSD

Thanks for the computation - looks a bit more sane, but still - seems pretty expensive compared to a cheap VPS for the one-man-show scale, and quite expensive for 'we need 100s of those' compared with standalone server.

5 GB is included storage, additional is available for $0.24 per GB per month.

Still, this doesn't seem competitive with AWS. The same money buys you substantially more RAM: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/pricing/

Edit: sibling comment points out the actual pricing for google is lower.

$10 + the very non-trivial cost of administering it yourself.

For micro scale self-managed Postgres, what's difference? Keep in mind that GCP doesn't support HA (ye)t and has not guaranteed anything.

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