> Free RDS Alternative RDS is a managed service. This is a code repo. It is useless until you deploy it at which point... it's no longer free. Then you have to manage it yourself and deal with the overhead yourself. This is like saying I can fire my gardener because you have a free gardener alternative, and then handing me a pair of scissors. I now have all the problems that I paid the Gardener to solve. Likewise, we…
I was the designated gardener to tackle this: architecting and managing a PostgreSQL deployment with 25K cores and 3M TPS. We've been shelling out a cool $1M annually, covering the whole thing - hardware, software, and DBAs. Meanwhile, the toll for RDS is an astronomical tenfold of our current expenditure, yet it comes with a lesser degree of availability and a starkly crippled observability and other stuff.