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Isn't the storage kinda expensive? It's $15 per 10 GiB, which is ~10x more expensive than AWS SSD storage and ~100x more than bulk storage with an S3-like service. It's $1500 per TiB, which is a lot of money. I guess it might not be designed for time series data like I am used to collecting, which requires thinking on the TiB scale at the very least.

I do appreciate it's Apache 2.0 licensed, so you can run it yourself. I can't complain too much about pricing for what looks to be my dream database that I have always wanted with branching and separated storage and compute.

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To be fair to neon: you get free point in time recovery, HA, branching, automatic scaling without downtime, and read replicas (that also automatically scale).

Yea, it's not really a product for the type of massive bulk storage I'm thinking about. This seems more like the database you use for everything that isn't the bulk storage. Things that get read/written to often enough to care about versioning and HA and all those other things. Time series bulk data wouldn't be a good application for their managed service since it's usually "write once, read sometimes, store cheap".

> Isn't the storage kinda expensive?

Depends on the actual performance. Normal EBS is dead slow but you can pay for the IoPs.

Yeah that storage pricing is a killer. Given Aurora is $0.1/GB, I just wouldn't even consider this.

Neon is a lot more than just storage. It's branching, autoscaling, (cheap) read replicas, serverless computing, etc. If you only care about storage pricing, Neon is not the service for you. As you've said, storage pricing is cheaper elsewhere.

Sure, but I've got serverless computing with Aurora v2. I've got upto 15 read replicas, blue/green deployments, upto 128 cores per replica at a cheaper price... I'm just not really thinking that a bit of branching will make up for a 10x or more increase in cost.

Those increased storage costs make the decoupled compute and the associated auto-scaling benefits almost irrelevant as far as the overall cost picture goes.

We have former Aurora users come to Neon who tell us they saved money by switching. If someone like yourself were to migrate, they definitely would be an enterprise sale, which has different pricing than what is available in our current tiers.

What counts as storage? There’s a huge difference between storage vs database size as there’s a huge overhead otherwise.

RDS and Aurora usage just keeps growing even if you don’t have much real data.

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