We provide you fully managed Postgres. Lots of our customers use it for lots of small instances of Postgres since using Lakebase is so lightweight.
Small and large instances benefit from this performance optimization.
Small and large instances benefit from this performance optimization.
This isnt some high throughput app where every IOPS matters.
And in my experiences, most apps that need a database arent serving 1000's of people per hour. Most are fine with a few users per hour.
The whole "scale to scale cause youre 1 minute away from HN hug of death" is just wishful thinking a budget bloat from the hyperscalers selling 'butwhatifs'. Ive called AWS to task on their 5 pillars crap, which basically says "pay double for redundancy". Gee, I wonder why AWS would recommend customers to pay double (eyeroll).