[michael-go]

What motivates me personally is not that I think Google Postgres will be better than RDS (which is great for us so far), but because I want to move to GCP for other reasons (pricing, better UI & cli, GKE, BigQuery) and the managed Postgres RDS was the only thing that was important enough to keep us on AWS

[mhluongo]

Same for us. We're migrating to GKE but are accessing Postgres over a gateway and leaving our DB heavy services on AWS... This was very good news.

[sandGorgon]

Same here.

Plus RDS was the only reasonable option at that price tier (with high availability and multi-AZ). I think competition was sorely needed.

RDS was pretty much becoming a monopoly on this front.

[bruce_one]

Is [Compose](www.compose.com) comparable?

They have a HA postgres offering (not sure about multi-az) and I thought I'd heard good things about them in the past?

[JoeyPeeps]

I just started using Google Postgres and, as of today, there is no way to easily get your PG data into BigQuery via any Google cloud service. You have to create your own CSV from your PG data, then upload that into BigQuery. I imagine (hope) this will change with additions to the Export options of PG instances.