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Heroku PostgreSQL vs. AWS RDS PostgreSQL from Codeship

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This comparison's price section doesn't make any sense. How about this instead:

Heroku:

    Single-AZ is $750/mo - 15GB
    Multi-AZ is $1,200/mo - 15GB

Amazon

    Single-AZ is $284.7/mo - 15GB/4vCPU
    Multi-AZ is $569.4/mo - 15GB/4vCPU

In simpler terms, Heroku is more than double the price.

You're only comparing the Amazon instance cost with Heroku's full bundled cost. The article is including provisioned storage, IOPs, backups and data transfer - all factors in AWS pricing - to the included levels with that Heroku tier. AWS comes in around $1,156/month on demand when equivalently compared to everything in the $1,200 Heroku plan.

If AWS pricing was that simple, the comparison would be a whole lot more straightforward.

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