It's quite a bit more than RDS/cloud provider managed. I don't see a reason to use them vs a cloud provider native service if you're already in the cloud provider hotel california.
4X. We were astounded. And so we’re the Heroku folks I talked to, who I’m guessing will want to try to bring performance boosts.
We haven’t done the switch quite yet because we’re waiting on Crunchy to bring out their Heroku Dataclips replacement, which is something we rely on a lot. But once it’s ready, we’re going to switch!
Dataclips equivalent is coming, we're hoping to release sometime in March.