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Comment by CharlesW | Hacker News Reader

A less clickbait-y title would be, "How to Run Our Database on AWS at a Reasonable Cost".

"Reasonable Cost" comes from the conclusion, and I omitted "Better Performance" since they never compare to alternatives (although they do mention Aurora).

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For what it’s worth, there’s a good amount of content in the article that I found interesting for my purposes operating Postgres on RDS.

Interesting. What changes are you making to future Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL instances as a result?

I bookmarked the article and will consult it next time I’m reviewing instance types for a cluster.

Sorry if the title sounds misleading to you. We are simply trying to give our customers (or potentially other cloud database users) a solution that has best performance with limited resources. Competitive analysis is not the focus of this post.

(This advice is offered in the spirit of improving your content marketing efforts.)

I understand the desire to "reel in" more readers than a post might otherwise warrant, but in my experience you're better off not promising general advice if you're not providing it.

For example, you might say, "How we configure TiDB on AWS to handle XXX transactions per second for XXX/month", or "Squeezing the highest TiDB performance from AWS m5 instances". There are definitely interesting ways to title posts in a way that's supported by the content.

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